Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his childâs body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.
In his most moving and accessible novel yet, Grossman--the leading Israeli novelist of his generation--offers a boy's painful confrontation with adulthood on the eve of the Six-Day War. Twelve-year-old Ahron, the leader of the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, is apalled as his friends begin to leave their childhood imaginations behind for what is called patriotism.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Literature & Fiction
- Jewish
- Literature & Fiction
Publisher : Picador
Author : Grossman, David
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2002-10-04
Number Of Pages : 352
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0312420951
ISBN-13 : 9780312420956
Item weight : 0.7 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 5.5 in x 8.2 in
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