More Than I Love My Life
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Narrated by:
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Gilli Messer
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By:
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David Grossman
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar.
On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the 90th birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby.
Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. It is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.
More Than I Love My Life is a sweeping story about the power of love and loving with courage. A novel driven by faith in humanity even in our darkest moments, it asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a woman's duty to herself and to her children.
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"Grossman's work resonates with emotional intelligence, humanity and truth." (Irish Times)
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-05-24
a superb translation from ivrit into english
this is a symphony in language that graphically describes how the most horrific brutality of man and/or woman against another has provided only far greater love and a nation that shall stand for a thousand years (israel.)
for those of us that can remember this is also a beautiful love story grown in the most fertile of soils; the kibbutz life when movies were lovingly created produced and displayed for all members (and volunteers) to savour, perhaps on a Friday night in the earlier days before ownership of a television set by each family divided the gemeinscheaft.bravo...a true gem of a read marvellously narrated in this Audible collection.
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- Vana Tzavara
- 30-05-23
Nice one
I chose it because I joined a book club! It was nice and the characters great but a bit boring sometimes!
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