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To the end of the land / David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.
Van Pelt Library PJ5054.G728 I8413 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grossman, David.
- Standardized Title:
- Ishah boraḥat mi-beśorah. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and sons--Israel--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Soldiers--Israel--Fiction.
- Soldiers.
- Families--Israel--Fiction.
- Families.
- Trails--Israel--Fiction.
- Trails.
- War and society--Israel--Fiction.
- War and society.
- History.
- Israel--History--1967-1993--Fiction.
- Israel.
- Israel--History--1993---Fiction.
- Families--Fiction.
- Israel--Fiction.
- Mothers.
- Military Personnel.
- Family.
- Warfare.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mothers.
- Military Personnel.
- Family.
- Warfare.
- Israel.
- Genre:
- Miscellaneous fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 575 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Hebrew.
- Summary:
- Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young. Avram was sent into Egypt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Ora supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book."
- National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780307592972
- 0307592979
- OCLC:
- 495781119
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