The Thinking Heart

On Israel and Palestine

David Grossman

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JONATHAN CAPE
08 October 2024

Literary essays; Peace studies & conflict resolution; History; Middle Eastern history; Military history; Geopolitics

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- The award winning novelist, David Grossman, has released this short collection of essays about Israel and its present predicament. One can feel Grossman’s growing anxiety over his nation’s future. The earliest essay is from 2017, with the most recent from 2024.

This is a thoughtful and considered look at a very complex and nuanced problem from someone caught right in the thick of things, as opposed to all voices shouting from the sidelines. Greg

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?
*Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature
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A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?

International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation-

How could this massacre have happened? How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens? And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution?

In eleven essays David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who simply want to live in peace.

Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all- Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?

By: David Grossman
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 186mm, Width: 118mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 155g
ISBN: 9781787335509
ISBN 10: 178733550X
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 08 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Grossman is the bestselling author of numerous works, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. His most recent novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar, was awarded the International Man Booker Prize 2017, and shortlisted for the TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize 2019. Grossman is also the recipient of the French Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the 2010 Frankfurt Peace Prize.

Reviews for The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine

The greatest Israeli writer of his generation * Telegraph * There are some writers in whose words one recognizes the texture of life. David Grossman is such a writer. He is a master of the emotionally accurate and significant -- Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi