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David Grossman: To the End of the Land David Grossman: To the End of the Land

In this stunning, bestselling novel--and an NBCC Award finalist--David Grossman tells the powerful story of a mother's love for her son. Just before his release from service in the Israeli army, Ora's son Ofer is sent back to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, so that no bad news can reach her, Ora sets out on an epic hike in the Galilee. She is joined by an unlikely companion--Avram, a former friend and lover with a troubled past--and as they sleep out in the hills, Ora begins to conjure her son. Ofer's story, as told by Ora, becomes a surprising balm both for her and for Avram--and a mother's haunting meditation on war and family. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Pittsburgh Post Gazette A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

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Random House USA, New York, USA, 2011
652 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780307476401 · Fordította: Jessica Cohen
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Vintage, London, UK, 2011
592 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780099546740 · Fordította: Jessica Cohen

Enciklopédia 16

Helyszínek népszerűség szerint

Izrael


Kedvencelte 1


Népszerű idézetek

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She knew full well from her experience with Adam, who had been out of the army for three years, that they don't really come back. Not like they were before. And that the boy he used to be had been lost to her forever the moment he was nationalized – lost to himself, too.

75. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: háború · katonaság
Aprily>!

[…] Ofer once told her that when they set off on a military campaign, the guys made sure to keep their heads a certain distance from each other, so there's be room for the red circle that would mark them later, in the newspaper.

70. oldal

Aprily>!

The fact that we somehow managed to walk between the raindrops without really getting splattered even once, from any war or terrorist attack, from any rocket, grenade, bullet, shell, explosive device, sniper, suicide bomber, metal marbles, slingstone, knife, nails. The fact that we just lived out a quiet, private life.
Do you get it? A small, unheroic life, one that deals as little as possible with the situation, God damn it, because as you know, we already paid our price.
Sometimes, once every few weeks –
Once a week or so, I would wake up with a panic attack and say quietly into Ilan's ear: „Look at us. Aren't we like a little underground cell in the heart of the 'situation'?”
And that really is what we were.
For twenty years.
Twenty good years.
Until we got trapped.

299. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: háború · terrorizmus
Aprily>!

What do they know about the sweetness that flows through the clefts of her soul after she manages to quell and ground another lightning storm of anger or frustration or vengefulness or insult, or just the momentary misery of each and every one of the three of them, at each and every age?

312. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: anyaság · család
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„Explain to me how I never asked myself what a four-year-old boy feels when he finds out that he belongs to a carnivorous breed?”

332. oldal

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What it all comes down to, Ora senses, is randomness in everything.

335. oldal

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„Oh, Avram, where will this end? Tell me, where will this end? There's no more room for all the dead.”

480. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: háború · terror
Aprily>!

Ilan asked only that they not go together into the same place and reminded them that a month ago a terrorist strapped with explosives had been caught trying to enter a Jerusalem bar. The boys put their hands to their hearts and promised gravely that they would split up: Ofer would go to the „Shahid Hope” pub, and Adam to the „Hezbollah Martyrs” nightclub. "Then we'll meet up in „Seventy Virgins” square and hang around downtown for a while, mostly in crowded places, and we'll get right up close to people with Middle Eastern features and piercing looks."

511. oldal

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Ilan swallowed and said, „You know what? I'm glad he blew himself up in Tel Aviv and not on you at the roadblock.” Ofer was outraged: „But, Dad, that's my job! I stand there precisely so they'll themselves up on me and not in Tel Aviv.”

498. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Tel-Aviv · terrortámadás
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How much effort she put into ingratiating herself at the most important moments in her life, Ora thinks sadly.

272. oldal


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