Sarah A Smith
Children Of War
To the End of the Land
By David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen)
Jonathan Cape 575pp £18.99 order from our bookshop
What story would a modern-day Scheherazade tell? For David Grossman, the answer is compelling: she tells the story of her fractured land, Israel, through the prism of her family. And the reason she tells it is not to save herself, but to save her second son: a soldier who, at the end of his military service, has signed up at the start of the second intifada for a final operation.
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