Description: Blending prose and drama and reading like a fable-the main character here is called Walking Man, and other characters include the Net Mender, the Midwife, and the Elderly Math Teacher-this new work from multi-award-winning Israeli novelist Grossman investigates grief, solace, and the finality of death. The novel opens with Walking Man informing his wife that he is departing to search for their dead son, then traveling in expanding circles around the town as others join him to reflect on their own losses. While Grossman's recent, triumphant To the End of the Land addresses such issues within a detailed and realistic frame, this brief novel works through -Chagall-like luminosity.

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