David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'

In May 2003, David Grossman, one of Israel's most celebrated novelists, began writing a new book. It was to be about what the Israelis euphemistically call "the Situation", which was a little odd because, for the past decade, he'd carefully avoided writing about politics, in his stories, if not his journalism. It was not just that he'd long felt that almost anything he could say had already been s

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"To The End Of The Land"の英訳が出版されたばかりのDavid Grossmanのインタビュー。2006年のレバノン侵攻で当時、徴兵中で従軍していた次男を停戦のわずか2日前に亡くした。服喪明けから執筆にとりかかった実体験に基づく小説。