The Smile of the Lamb - Hardcover

Grossman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374266395 ISBN 13: 9780374266394

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991

Synopsis

Uri, an idealistic Israeli soldier serving in an army unit in occupied Arab territory, becomes involved with an Arab storyteller who considers Uri his spiritual heir, while Uri's wife commences a romantic liaison with Uri's commander, Katzman

About this title

Review:

"An extraordinary achievement...moving, many-layered, powerful, yet written with beautiful delicacy of touch, is a work of redemption... Combining the compassionate wisdom of the moralist with a true artist's creative imagination, this book deserves the widest possible audience" (Indepdendent)

"Bold, grand, mad, an astonishing meditation on art, religion, love, politics and war, despatched in language which is funny, ferocious and enraptured" (Observer)

"A courageous novel, the first attempt by an Israeli author of the post-1967 generation to come to terms with the consequences of the Occupation, to articulate how 'the conqueror is also the conquered, and injustice has teeth in its tail'" (Guardian)

"Extreme, enormous, almost embarrassingly good, a first novel whose very last page somehow fuses together the political and spiritual currents running through modern day Israel" (Time Out)

"At once sensitive, humane, elegiac and devoid of optimism, save a vague faith in love" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

The first Israeli novel written about the occupation of the West Bank, by one of the most influential writers of his generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0374266395
• ISBN 13: 9780374266394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1