David Grossman

Lion's Honey (eBook, ePUB)

The Myth of Samson
Übersetzer: Schoffman, Stuart

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Let my soul die with the Philistines"

Samson - hero or misfit? Revisiting Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal
by them all - including the only one he ever loved - Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story,
and Samson's controversial final act of death, when he brought down a temple on himself and three thousand
Philistines. Revealed as a single, lonely and tortured soul who always operated outside the norm, we are forced
to recognise Samson in the world we live in today.

"A writer of passionate honesty, unafraid to ask terrible questions." Nadine Gordimer

"Enriching and entertaining ... it is to be savoured in precisely the manner in which Grossman here savours his subject, with enjoyable, intelligent appreciation." Times Literary Supplement

"His journey takes us to the heart of ourselves, in this millennia-old creation of a man, like Oedipus, whose
tragedy was that his own predestined story was too big for his soul to bear." Independent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847676870
• Artikelnr.: 38355093

Autorenporträt

David Grossman is the author of nine internationally acclaimed novels and a number of children's books. Grossman has been presented with numerous awards including the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), and he won the International Man Booker Prize with A Horse Walks into a Bar. He lives with his wife and children in a suburb of Jerusalem.