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The Smile of the Lamb

Signed first UK edition of David Grossman's The Smile of the Lamb

David Grossman; translated by Betsy Rosenberg
First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 325. Black cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Sarah Jones. Signed by Author to title-page.
Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg. Originally published in 1983 under the title Hiyukh ha-Gedi, by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv.
Author's first novel and the first work of literature published in Israel to deal with the occupation of Palestinian territories. The story of an idealistic Israeli soldier serving in the occupied West Bank, his wife who works at a juvenile psychiatric centre, and the terrible price exacted when conscience and historical forces collide. By the winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks into a Bar. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature, the state's highest cultural honour. "A brilliantly constructed, hair-raising exploration of the 'morphology of lies' in the inextricably linked personal and political worlds of Israel." San Francisco Chronicle
special feature
signed
edition
first UK
format
hardback
publisher
Jonathan Cape
published in
London
publication year
1991
ISBN
0224026399
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
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