Someone to Run With

Proof copy. Pp. [vi], 374, [2]. Cream white wraps printed in red and black. Signed by Author to title page in Athens, on the occasion of the Greek language launch of his 2017 Man Booker International Prize-winner A Horse Walks into a Bar. Covers lightly soiled, last 4 leaves a tad scrunched-up to lower edge, else Fine.

Translated from the Hebrew by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz. Originally published in 2000 under the title Meeshehu Larutz Ito, by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv.

The story of a missing dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of present-day Jerusalem. Grossman interviewed Israeli street kids extensively for this excursion into fairy-tale magic and gritty realism – his most popular work to date. Recipient of the 2018 Israel Prize for Literature, the state's highest cultural honour. Basis for the 2006 Israeli film of the same name, directed by Oded Davidoff, starring Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar-Or and Tzahi Grad. Bar Belfer's performance won her the Special Grand Jury Award in the World Cinema Competition at the 31st Miami International Film Festival. In 2019 the book was banned in Russia for fear of 'causing teen pregnancy, STDs'.

"Passionate and heartfelt... a story that is at once universal and specific, a classical fable of love brought to contemporary Israel." –Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review