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DescriptionWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 AwardsWinner: Man Booker International Prize, 2017. Reviews"Unrelentingly claustrophobic... The violence that A Horse Walks Into A Bar explores is more private and intimate. Its central interest is not the vicious treatment of vulnerable others but the cruelty that wells up within families, circulates like a poison in tight-knit groups, and finally turns inward against the self... Strategic weaving together of manic humour and tears... Searing and poignant." -- Stephen Greenblatt New York Review of Books "Brilliant, blistering... With Dovaleh, Grossman has created a character who's captivating and horrific and a stand-up routine that's disgusting and authentically human. I can hardly say how the book achieves its bewitching effects. It all happened so fast." -- Ken Kalfus Washington Post "Unless pop lyricists have the lock on the Novel prize in literature from now on, then a leading future candidate must be David Grossman." -- Mark Lawson Guardian, Book of the Year "Much of it is extremely funny, but it's also tightly controlled and carefully paced... Few writers hold a more unflinching mirror up to Israeli society than Grossman... [A Horse Walks into a Bar] is a work of sombre brilliance and disquieting rage, an unsparing exploration of the seductive spell of escapism and "the corruption that is in cynicism." -- Rebecca Abrams Financial Times "This is a virtuoso piece of writing, a whirlwind of laughter and tears that sucks you in and makes you holds your breath." -- John Harding Daily Mail Author descriptionDavid Grossman is the bestselling author of numerous works, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. 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. |