It has become almost impossible nowadays to become unreachable, to disappear off the radar for a while. But that is precisely what Ora, the main character in To the End of the Land anxiously attempts. The magnum opus of Israeli writer David Grossman is about a mother who feels compelled to apply very peculiar logic when her youngest son Ofer volunteers for a military campaign on the West Bank of the Jordan after his military service. Ora runs away and attempts to avert the inevitable while hiking across northern Galilee. It took Grossman years to write the novel, his first since the death of his son Uri in the last hours of the Second Lebanon War. The result is unforgettable: Ora is an inexhaustible character with thoughts and stories that are by turns dizzying and horrendous; that touch the depths of your soul and move you to tears. Grossman’s visit to Brussels marks the end of his long world tour.
A writer’s Europe: David Grossman
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