Hello
Gentle Reader
This
year’s Man Booker International Prize had two Israeli writers on its shortlist,
the well known and Nobel favoured: Amos Oz for his novel: “Judas,”— and his
contemporary David Grossman with his novel: “A Horse Walks Into A Bar.”
Of
the six finalists it was David Grossman who walked away with this year’s Man
Booker International Prize, with what has been described as his: “hire wire act
of a novel.”—“A Horse Walks Into A Bar,” is a novel which details a stand up
comics public breakdown. Grossman’s tragic and flawed comedian takes the stage
to make his audience laugh with his vulgar and assertive jokes and comments,
reveals a decision he once made and continues to haunt him. The judges praised
Grossman’s novel as being able to depict a truly flawed, yet human character,
who goes through the stages and motions of guilt and grief, while being
deprived of false sentiment and hallmark-sentimentality.
The
judges praised David Grossman for his wisdom and his high emotional intelligence
which he displayed in the novel; but also were greatly impressed by his
stylistic and formatting decisions, when composing and compiling the novel. Needless
to say David Grossman floored and blew the judges away with his novel which
went beyond Israel as a state and probed through the individual, the collective
soul, spirit and shadow of a nation.
Congratulations
David Grossman!
Thank-you
For Reading Gentle Reader
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As Always
Stay
Well Read
M.
Mary
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