whatsapp logo
Image of More Than I Love My Life

More Than I Love My Life

David Grossman

From Shelf: Overheard on BBC Radio 4 Open Book Sunday 22nd August & Thursday 26th August 2021

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar.On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby.Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.'More Than I Love My Life... is a profound testament to the emotional power of fiction and shows why some critics regard Grossman as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature.' Financial Times 'Immaculately translated by Jessica Cohen, this is another extraordinary novel from Grossman, a book as beautiful and sad as anything you'll read this year.' Observer

Format:
Hardback
Pages:
288
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9781787332935
Published Date:
26/8/2021
Dimensions:
242mm x 167mm x 32mm
Weight:
538g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £18.99

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781787332935


Shelves containing this book

Overheard on BBC Radio 4 Open Book Sunday 22nd August & Thursday 26th August 2021
Viewing 1 to 1 of 14 books
The 2022 International Booker Prize Longlist
Viewing 1 to 1 of 13 books