Her Body Knows
Two Novellas
(Sprache: Englisch)
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn Her Body Knows, a fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past together in each of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest.
In "Frenzy," reserved, respectable Shaul lets his sister-in-law, Esti, into a secret nightmare, as he reveals to her his conviction that his wife is having an affair. Along with Esti, we find ourselves trapped in his paranoia and desperation as we accompany the odd pair down Israel's highways on a journey that reveals a passion perverted by jealousy and self-loathing.
In the title story, a successful but embittered novelist visits her mother, who is in the last stages of cancer. Grossman investigates the powers of storytelling to harm and heal as the daughter reads aloud her own imagined, merciless account of her mother's love affair with a much younger teenage boy. Gradually it becomes clear that, for all its anger, the daughter's story and the writing process itself have led her to a new appreciation of her mother's difficult character, and her own.
Studies in obsession, claustrophobia, and the need to confess, these two novellas mark a new departure from "a writer who has been, for nearly two decades, the one of the most original and talented ... anywhere." (The New York Times Book Review).
Autoren-Porträt von David Grossman
David Grossman, 1954 in Jerusalem geboren, ein dezidierter Verfechter einer friedlichen Lösung des Nahostkonflikts, gehört wegen seiner differenzierten politischen Haltung und ungewöhnlichen Erzählphantasie zu den herausragenden Schriftstellern der jüngeren Generation.David Grossman hat für seine schriftstellerisches Werk und sein politisches Engagement zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten, u. a. den Nelly-Sachs-Preis (1991), den Premio Mondello (Italien, 1996) und den Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (2008). 2010 wird ihm der Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels verliehen.
David Grossman ist verheiratet und hat drei Kinder, er lebt in Mevaseret Zion, einem Vorort von Jerusalem.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Grossman
- 2006, 272 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 21,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Jessica Cohen
- Verlag: St. Martin's Press
- ISBN-10: 0312425058
- ISBN-13: 9780312425050
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2006
Sprache:
Englisch
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