Her Body Knows: Two Novellas

Her Body Knows: Two Novellas - Paperback

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Her Body Knows: Two Novellas - Paperback

Her Body Knows: Two Novellas - Paperback

by David Grossman
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Book Overview

by David Grossman (Author)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

In Her Body Knows, a fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past together in each of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest.

In "Frenzy," reserved, respectable Shaul lets his sister-in-law, Esti, into a secret nightmare, as he reveals to her his conviction that his wife is having an affair. Along with Esti, we find ourselves trapped in his paranoia and desperation as we accompany the odd pair down Israel's highways on a journey that reveals a passion perverted by jealousy and self-loathing.

In the title story, a successful but embittered novelist visits her mother, who is in the last stages of cancer. Grossman investigates the powers of storytelling to harm and heal as the daughter reads aloud her own imagined, merciless account of her mother's love affair with a much younger teenage boy. Gradually it becomes clear that, for all its anger, the daughter's story and the writing process itself have led her to a new appreciation of her mother's difficult character, and her own.

Studies in obsession, claustrophobia, and the need to confess, these two novellas mark a new departure from "a writer who has been, for nearly two decades, the one of the most original and talented ... anywhere." (The New York Times Book Review).

Author Biography

David Grossman has received several international awards for his writing, including the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zigzag Kid. He is the author of several novels, including A Horse Walks into a Bar, The Book of Intimate Grammar, as well as children's books, and a play. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: July 11, 2006
ISBN9780312425050
Author David Grossman
PublisherPicador USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About David Grossman

David Grossman was born in Jerusalem. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker and has been translated into more than forty languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the French Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Buxtehuder Bulle in Germany, Italy's Premio Roma per la Pace el'Azione Umanitaria and Premio Ischia International Award for Journalism, Israel's EMET Prize, the Albatross Prize given by the Günter Grass Foundation, the Erasmus Prize given by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, and the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Jerusalem.

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