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Falling out of time / by David Grossman.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780224097901 (hardback)
ISBN	0224097903 (hardback)
Name	Grossman, David author.
Uniform title	Nofel mi-ohuts la-zeman. English
Title	Falling out of time / by David Grossman.
Published	London : Jonathan Cape, 2014.
Published	©2014.
Description	193 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	Translated from the Hebrew.
Summary	In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama-part play, part prose, pure poetry-to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son. The man-called simply the "Walking Man"-paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Math Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death's hermetic separateness.
Subjects	Grief -- Fiction
Subjects	Death -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Death -- Fiction . Grief -- Fiction . Authors: Grossman, David .