Falling out of time
By: David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Contributors: Cohen, Jessica (Translator)
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780385350136; 9780345805850; 9780385350143
Subjects: Bereavement; Fiction
Work titles: Nofel mi-ḥuts la-zeman
Description: In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama -- part play, part prose, pure poetry -- to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son. The man -- called simply Walking Man -- paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net-Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Math Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death's hermetic separateness.
Notes: Translation of: Nofel mi-ḥuts la-zeman.