LEADER 00000cam a22001335a 4500 001 16613087 003 SE-LIBR 003 OCoLC 003 LT 008 140623s2014 xx ||||| ||| ||eng c 020 9780385350136 041 1 eng|hheb 082 00 892.4/36|223 084 Heesd 092 0 Roman|bengelska 100 1 Grossman, David,|d1954- 240 10 Nofel mi-huts la-zeman.|lEngelska 245 10 Falling out of time /|cDavid Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen 250 |bFörsta engelska upplaga 264 |bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2014 520 In this book, the Israeli author has created a genre- defying drama, part play, part prose, pure poetry, to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village in Israel, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in to an undefinded place where he hopes to find and to speak to their dead son. The man, called simply Walking Man, paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net-Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Math Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? The answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death's hermetic separateness 520 Announcing I have to go, a grief-stricken Israeli villager takes leave of his bewildered wife, embarking on a journey to there -- an impossibly undefined place where he hopes to find and to speak with his dead son. As he sets out walking, in ever-widening circles around his village, the Walking Man becomes a Pied Piper of Bereavement 650 0 Bereavement|vFiction 650 0 Death|vFiction 650 0 Parent and child|vFiction 650 7 Bereavement.|2fast 655 0 Jewish fiction 655 7 Fiction.|2fast 655 7 Skönlitteratur|2saogf 700 1 Cohen, Jessica 907 00 140811
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