The Book Of Intimate Grammar

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Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development. He stops growing, retreats from the world, and is imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches towards the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his child's body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.

Autorenportrait

David Grossman was born in Jerusalem, where he still lives. He is the bestselling author of numerous works of fiction, non-fiction and childrens books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the French Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres and the 2010 Frankfurt Peace Prize. His most recent novels were<i>To the End of the Land</i>(2010), described by Jacqueline Rose in the<i>Guardian</i>as without question one of the most powerful and moving novels I have ever read, and<i>Falling Out of Time</i>(2014).

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