Alessandra Shomroni Boeken

In Falling Out of Time , David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son.The man - called simply the 'Walking Man' - paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Maths Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death’s hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossman’s storytelling – a realm where loss is not merely an absence, but a life force of its own.

Een hond - een hond sleurt een jongen mee door de drukke binnenstad van Jeruzalem. De jongen kent de hond niet, hij heeft alleen van hogerhand de opdracht gekregen hem bij de rechtmatige eigenaar terug te bezorgen, al heeft hij geen idee wie dat is. De hond neemt vanaf de kennel het initiatief en behoudt het tot het eind. Hij ontketent een serie avonturen die de lezer in een adembenemend tempo door dit boek voert, door alle jachtigheid, controverses en onverzoenlijkheden heen waarin we leven. Een excentrieke kluizenares, drugsverslaafden, straatmuzikanten, potenrammers, vuurvreters en criminelen, maar ook een verlegen jongeman, een doortastend meisje en een liefde die haar beslag krijgt ver buiten Jeruzalem.

Combines absurd, humorous, and poignant themes that reveal the fierce humanity of characters in surreal situations.

Professor Yohanan Rivlin has two obsessions: the first is to understand the Arab mind; the second is to understand the failure of his elder son's marriage. Rivlin's two quests lead him to extraordinary encounters with very disparate people as he searches out the truth both in politics and life.

In un appartamento londinese, un uomo talmente privo di senso pratico da non saper aprire una latta di sardine osserva incredulo il suo rivale più accanito, impegnato nella preparazione di una frittata. Il primo è Vladimir Jabotinskij, leader della destra revisionista sionista, l'uomo ai fornelli invece è David Ben Gurion, ebreo socialista e futuro fondatore dello Stato d'Israele. È il 1934: mentre sull'Europa incombe lo spettro del nazismo, i due leader, solitamente divisi da un contrasto insanabile, si incontrano per cercare un terreno comune con cui affrontare il destino che li attende e costruire il futuro di Israele. Del resto è la Bibbia a insegnarlo: «Camminano forse due uomini insieme, se prima non si sono accordati?». Mettendo in scena il dramma di due uomini carismatici e tormentati, Abraham Yehoshua ci fa entrare in quelle stanze, solitamente inaccessibili, in cui la Storia si svela.

Twee novellen over een man die het vermeende overspel van zijn vrouw bekent aan zijn schoonzus en over een yogalerares die een getroubleerde 15-jarige jongen onder haar hoede krijgt.

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love?Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she’s never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years.At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman’s quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss—a mother besotted with her only child—arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that in ensemble may have undermined what she most treasured. With exquisite psychological precision, Blum traces the seemingly insignificant missteps and deceptions of family life, where it’s possible to cross the line between protectiveness and possession without even seeing it—and uncertain whether, or how, we can find our way back.

When the awkward, neurotic and childlike Yair, a seller of rare books, sees a beautiful woman across the room at a class reunion he feels compelled to write to her. So begins a love affair of words between two married, middle-aged adults, dissatisfied with their lives, yearning for the connection that has always eluded them. “Be a knife for me,” Yair writes to Miriam, “and I, I swear, will be a knife for you.” As they peel back their inhibitions, their correspondence unfolds into an exchange of their most naked confessions in a novel that is as passionate as it is spellbinding.

Una raccolta di racconti con uno spirito apparentemente assurdo che, in realtà, illumina il lettore su tanti aspetti del mondo, cercando le risposte alle più grandi domande esistenziali.