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COPY LINK DOWNLOAD ----------------------------------- https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/0385350139 ----------------------------------- Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief&#8211&#8211concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art&#8217s triumph over death. &nbsp In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama&#8211&#8211part play, part prose, pure poetry&#8211&#8211to 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&#8211&#8211called simply Walking Man&#8211&#8211paces 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&#8217s answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal a

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Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief&#8211&#8211concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art&#8217s triumph over death. &nbsp In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama&#8211&#8211part play, part prose, pure poetry&#8211&#8211to 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&#8211&#8211called simply Walking Man&#8211&#8211paces 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&#8217s answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal a

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