The Smile Of The Lamb

An extraordinary achievement…moving, many-layered, powerful, yet written with beautiful delicacy of touch, is a work of redemption… Combining the compassionate wisdom of the moralist with a true artist’s creative imagination, this book deserves the widest possible audience * Indepdendent *Bold, grand, mad, an astonishing meditation on art, religion, love, politics and war, despatched in language which is funny, ferocious and enraptured * Observer *A courageous novel, the first attempt by an Israeli author of the post-1967 generation to come to terms with the consequences of the Occupation, to articulate how ‘the conqueror is also the conquered, and injustice has teeth in its tail’ * Guardian *Extreme, enormous, almost embarrassingly good, a first novel whose very last page somehow fuses together the political and spiritual currents running through modern day Israel * Time Out *At once sensitive, humane, elegiac and devoid of optimism, save a vague faith in love * Sunday Times *Masterful irony and passion… the sustained poetic intensity of many passages is impressive * Evening Standard *From its very first pages one is aware of Grossman’s potential range and originality…Khilmi, an Arab storyteller, is the novel’s great imaginative narrative achievement… What a rare pleasure to read a novel in which the novelist’s narrative and ideas are so gripping, they are worth arguing about! Here we have authentic talent * Washington Post *Grossman has made a habit of peeling away the camouflage that obfuscates Israel’s more painful wounds * Independent *His fiction is earnest, sympathetic, human and highly readable * Irish Times *

David Grossman is the bestselling author of numerous works, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. His novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar, was awarded the International Man Booker Prize 2017. Grossman is also the recipient of the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the 2010 Frankfurt Peace Prize.

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