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A Horse Walks into a Bar

A Horse Walks into a Bar

by David Grossman
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 21/02/2017

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**WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017**

In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of standup.

In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as the awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies.

Gradually, teetering between hilarity and hysteria, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood-his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring; his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son.

Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youth-where Lazar witnessed what became the central event of Dov's childhood-Dov describes the indescribable while Lazar wrestles with his own part in the comedian's story of loss and survival.

A beautiful performance by Grossman (jokes in questionable taste included).

ISBN:
9781681684376
9781681684376
Category:
Fiction & related items
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
21-02-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Highbridge Company
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
134.62x162.56x27.94mm
Weight:
0.18kg
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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