David Grossman

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1991
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Smile of the Lamb

    In a chorus of voices David Grossman's The Smile of the Lamb tells the story of Uri, an idealistic young Israeli soldier serving in an army unit in the small Palestinian village of Andal, in the occupied territories, and his relationship with Khilmi,...

  • The Book of Intimate Grammar

    With The Book of Intimate Grammar, leading Israeli novelist David Grossman gives us the story of the greatest and most universal tragedy, the loss of the world of childhood. At twelve, Aron Kleinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem ...

  • The Zig Zag Kid

    David Grossman's classic novels See Under: Love and The Book of Intimate Grammar, earned him international acclaim as an author of childhood. The Zig Zag Kid, written in a more optimistic vein, recounts thirteen-year-old Nonny Feuerberg's picturesque...

  • Duel

    I was twelve years old when what I'm about to tell you took place. Today, sixteen years later, I still recall the pounding of my heart as I heard the approaching footsteps of the bully of Heidelberg University. Above me on the bed sat Heinrich Rosent...

  • Be My Knife

    The international bestseller Be My Knife is a compelling love story from David Grossman, the leading Israeli novelist of his generation"We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum, and at long last have to tell it--the truth. ...

  • See Under

    David Grossman's masterly fusing of vision, thought, and emotion make See Under: Love a luminously imaginative and profoundly affecting work. In this powerful novel by one of Israel's most prominent writers, Momik, the only child of Holocaust surviv...

  • The Zigzag Kid

  • Someone To Run With

    An award-winning Israeli author’s novel “is a cross between Run Lola Run and Oliver Twist . . . [with] an urgency that becomes almost unbearable” (New Yorker).David Grossman’s Someone to Run With tells the story of a lost dog, ...

  • Her Body Knows

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In Her Body Knows, a fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past together in each of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest.In "Fren...



  • Lovers and Strangers

    Here are two accounts of love - of men and women, mothers and daughters, strangers who for a brief moment become intimate. Souls are bared, secrets are revealed and stories are told. In Frenzy, a man and a woman are driving through the night. Shaul i...

  • Lion's Honey

    A consideration of one of the Bible’s most powerful stories from a leading Israeli writer In this fascinating reexamination of the story of Samson, David Grossman goes beyond the surface of the familiar tale to look into what the life of this extra...

  • See Under Love

  • To the End of the Land

    From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life -- the greatest human drama -- and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army...

  • Hug

    “You are sweet,” Ben’s mother tells him as they walk in the field at sunset, “There is no one like you in the entire world!” “I want there to be someone like me!” Ben exclaims, for if he is the only person like himself in the entire wor...

  • Falling Out of Time

    Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief -- concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art’s triu...

  • A Horse Walks Into a Bar

    The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance. In the dance between comic and audie...

  • More Than I Love My Life

    INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing -- the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told -- from th...

  • Every Wrinkle Has a Story

    Every Tuesday, Yotam’s grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: “Grandpa, what’s on your face?”  Grandpa Amno...

  • The Yellow Wind

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Grossman has published 19 books.

David Grossman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Every Wrinkle Has a Story, was published in February 2024.

The first book by David Grossman, The Smile of the Lamb, was published in January 1991.

No. David Grossman does not write books in series.
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