The Thinking Heart

The Thinking Heart

by David Grossman
Publication Date: 03/10/2024

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A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person’s soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?


International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation:


How could this massacre have happened?

How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens?

And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution?


In eleven essays David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who simply want to live in peace.


Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?

ISBN:
9781529947946
9781529947946
Category:
Political science & theory
Publication Date:
03-10-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
David Grossman

David Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 36 languages, and have won numerous prizes.

He addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his 2008 novel, To the End of the Land. Since that book's publication he has written a children's book, an opera for children and several poems.His most recent book, Falling Out of Time, deals with the grief of parents in the aftermath of their children's death.

His most recent novels were To the End of the Land, described by Jacqueline Rose as ‘without question one of the most powerful and moving novels I have ever read’, and Falling Out of Time.

He is the recipient of the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the 2010 Frankfurt Peace Prize.

In 2017 his novel, "A Horse Walks Into a Bar" won the Man Booker international Prize.

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