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092 0 Roman|bengelska
100 1 Grossman, David|4aut
245 10 Falling Out of Time /|cGrossman, David
264 1 |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
650 7 Fiction.|2fast
650 7 Skönlitteratur|2saogf
655 0 Jewish fiction
700 1 Cohen, Jessica
907 00 140811
