TO SHOOT A PIGEON: Essays

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David Grossman

Nonfiction

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For David Grossman, the political is inextricably linked to the private – whether he is considering the German-Israeli relationship, or the consequences of the ongoing violence in the Middle East, or Israel’s situation fifty years after the Six Day War, or the role of literature in a post-factual age. His appeals to freedom and individualism against resignation and defeatism are timeless and relevant.

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For more than three decades, Grossman has been wrestling with the trauma of war and issues of peace, jealousy, love and family relationships. In his first novel, See Under: Love, he grappled with the legacy of the Holocaust. In The Yellow Wind, he foretold the explosive first intifada, and in his bestselling To the End of the Land, he hauntingly portrayed a mother’s love and fear for her son in a time of conflict. These eight essays stand alone in their own right, and they are also a valuable complement to his fiction.

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