David Grossman
Love in Times of War – with the Israeli Booker Prize winner.
More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother and daughter pair, though Gili—abandoned by Nina when she was just three—has always been close to her grandmother.
With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together to Goli Otok, a barren island off the coast of Croatia, where Vera was imprisoned and tortured for three years as a young wife after she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey—filtered through the lens of Gili’s camera, as she seeks to make a film that might help explain her life—lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion.
David Grossman (born 1954 in Jerusalem) is one of our greatest living novelists, whose revered moral voice continues to resonate around the world. He has been awarded many international prizes, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2010, and the Booker Prize in 2017.
There may be more tickets available on the Kaufleuten website.
The conversation will be in English, the book excerpts will be read in German.
The ticket includes the subsequent silent movie screening.
If the weather is bad or uncertain, the event will take place indoors at Kaufleuten.
We have now reserved the larger hall at Kaufleuten as a bad weather option for the event with David Grossman. If you have reserved an openair ticket, this same ticket is now also valid if the event takes place indoors in bad weather.
This event is a collaboration with the association Omanut.
Organized by the bookstore Pile of Books.
Enjoy sandwiches, snacks and drinks. Open from 7 pm.
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