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Knopf
April 2014
On Sale: March 25, 2014
208 pages
ISBN: 0385350139
EAN: 9780385350136
Kindle: B00FIN0T50
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Fiction
Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the
universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an
incandescent fable of parental grief––concise, elemental, a
powerfully distilled experience of understanding and
acceptance, and of art’s triumph over death.
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman 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 a
kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is
leaving, embarking on a journey in search of 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?
Grossman’s 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. For
the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and
in the gift of Grossman’s storytelling––a realm where loss
is not merely an absence but a life force of its own.
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