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This great book club will primarily be reading literary fiction and is scheduled for the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5:30. Clint Schnekloth is facilitating this group.

Book club books are discounted 10%, but you will need to let the bookseller know at checkout that you are purchasing the book for book club.

The March selection is To the end of the land by David Grossman and is available as an eBook from Nightbird Books.

Location: Street: 205 W Dickson St City: Fayetteville, Province: Arkansas Postal Code: 72701 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

David Grossman discusses To the end of the land.

Renowned Israeli writer David Grossman began To the End of the Land in 2003, when his eldest son was about to be released from military service and his youngest was on the cusp of being drafted. Grossman had a wish that the book he was writing would protect his youngest son. But in 2006, during the last hours of the Second Lebanon War, his son was killed. Astoundingly, he returned to writing the book and finished what is being called “one of the great anti-war novels of our time”. This is a special opportunity to hear from a great novelist who has experienced violence in the Middle East in a most palpable way and yet continues to advocate compassion and reconciliation. Tickets $25. (thebookpile)… (more)

David Grossman reads from To the End of the Land.

As David Grossman and Sharon E. McKay will attest, so often in countries experiencing conflict it’s the children who suffer most. In some cases, as in Sharon McKay’s novel War Brothers, it’s the children themselves who are ordered to fi ght in exchange for essentials we take for granted: food, safety, a place to sleep. In other cases children are born into regions where people are at odds. For years David Grossman has written movingly and thoughtfully about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, which caused him a very personal loss. Join these two authors for an eye-opening discussion about the realities of war today, and the need for more compassion, tolerance and understanding if we hope to end these preventable tragedies. Suitable for grades 8 to 12. $17 / $8.50 for student groups (thebookpile)… (more)

David Grossman discusses Until the End of the Land.

The Israeli author discusses his work and latest novel. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center. Cosponsored by the Center for Israel Studies at American University, Nextbook, and the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. Contact www.washingtondcjcc.org/nextbook or 202-777-3251 for tickets. Open to the public. Free. (SqueakyChu)… (more)

David Grossman

Admission €10.00/€8.00. " Israeli novelist, essayist and political commentator David Grossman has won international acclaim for his writing including the Emet Prize, the Premio Grinzane and Premio Mondelo. He is the author of seven novels and two groundbreaking works of journalism, The Yellow Wind and Sleeping on a Wire, acclaimed yet controversial studies of the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

In 2003 a collection of articles chronicling the escalating violence in the Middle East was published as Death As a Way of Life. Yet for Grossman this turmoil does not determine all. Though set against the broad strokes of political conflict, his novels and stories are intimate and often sensuous explorations of the innermost refuge of the human psyche.

This exclusive Dublin visit is a rare opportunity to explore the work of a major contemporary voice on the global literary scene." (christiguc)… (more)