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008			101126s2010 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2010003915
020			_a9780307592972
050	0	0	_aPJ5054.G728 _bI8413 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC GRO
100	1		_aGrossman, David
240	1	0	_aIshah borahat mi-besorah _l. English
245	1	0	_aTo the end of the land _c/ David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
250			_a1st U.S. ed
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2010.
300			_a575 p. _c; 25 cm.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book."
520			_aOra, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the notifiers who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days' leave being offered by their commander a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a war and peace rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children.
650			_aMothers and sons _v--Drama
650		4	_aFamilies _v--Fiction
650			_aSoldiers _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTrails _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWar and society _v--Fiction
651		4	_aIsrael _x--Fiction
700	1		_aCohen, Jessica
942			_cMO
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