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“First of all, he turned on the large radio […] and heard that he had missed the beginning of the Bureau of Missing Persons program and hoped that in the interim they hadn’t announced his names. he removed the page from the refrigerator on which his father had written a few names […] and read them together with the radio broadcaster who said ‘Rochele, daughter of Paula and Avraham Zeligson from Przemyśl, is looking for her younger sister, Leahle’ […] Momik doesn’t even need to look at his page…because he knew all his names by heart.”
David Grossman, “See Under: Love”
Must Know
Israeli author and essayist, born in Jerusalem. Among the most popular Israeli writers in the world whose books have been translated into more than 30 languages. Grossman is also a peace and human rights activist, and winner of the Israel Prize and the International Man Booker Prize. He studied philosophy and theater at the Hebrew University and worked as a radio broadcaster. He writes prose for adults, teenagers and children, as well as essays, poems and plays. His best-known works include See Under: Love (1986), The Book of Intimate Grammar (1991), Someone to Run With (2000), To The End of the Land (2008), A Horse Walks into a Bar (2014), and Life Plays With Me (2019).
