The Book of Intimate Grammar - Hardcover

Grossman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224032852 ISBN 13: 9780224032858

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1994

Synopsis

At 12, Ahron is the leader of the boys in his Jerusalem neighbourhood. But as they begin to grow up, Ahron refuses. He turns away from the brutality of sensual life that he witnesses in his father's behaviour, and ignores the growing regimentation called "patriotism", as the Six-Day War advances.

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Review

"When the Israeli writer David Grossman's See Under: Love was published...he was compared legitimately to Kafka, Grass, Márquez and Joyce....David Grossman's own intimate grammar will speak to anyone who was ever 12." --The Boston Globe

"Like [Virginia] Woolf, Grossman is uncanny at reproducing an experience from the inside out...the writing reminds you of the great, solemn mystery of literature, what the poet Czeslaw Milosz calls 'the human possibility of being someone else.'" --Chicago Tribune

"Mr. Grossman's balance between the poetic and the profane is perfect....[The Book of Intimate Grammar] is See Under: Love's stylistic twin: the beauty and intelligence of the writing are dazzling....It can be read at once, as a tale of magic realism, a parable about the damage left in the wake of the Holocaust, a psychological portrait of a child's descent into madness, and, finally, as a comical but searing indictment of the Jewish family." --The New York Times Book Review

Book Description

A stunning novel - a searing psychological portrait of a child's descent into madness

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224032852
• ISBN 13: 9780224032858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352