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A Palestinian taxi driver waiting for passengers near the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, January In the background is the separation wall, with a graffiti painting by the British street artist Banksy and posters for the Pal. In this passage a mother is accompanying her son, who is returning to duty in the Israeli army. The convoy twists along, a stammering band of civilian cars, jeeps, military ambulances, tanks, and huge bulldozers on the backs of transporters. Her taxi driver is quiet and gloomy. For several long minutes he has looked neither at her nor at Ofer. As soon as Ofer sat down in the cab, he let out an angry breath and flashed a look that said: Not the smartest idea, Mom, asking this particular driver to come along on a trip like this. At seven that morning she had called Sami and asked him to come pick her up for a long drive to the Gilboa region. She wanted to spend these hours with Ofer, and although Ofer agreed, she could tell how much effort his concession took. Even if he is an Arab from here, one of ours, Ilan prods at her brain as she tries to justify her own behavior. They are his main livelihood, his regular monthly income, and he, in return, is obliged to be at their service around the clock, whenever they need him. They have been to his home in Abu Ghosh for family celebrations, they know his wife, Inaam, and they helped out with connections and money when his two older sons wanted to emigrate to Argentina. With him, every drive is a stand-up show. It would have all been so easy if she herself were driving Ofer. Why are you in such a hurry? A trip alone with him will not happen anytime soon, nor alone with herself, and she has to get used to this constraint. She has to let it go, stop grieving every day for her robbed independence. She should be happy that at least she has Sami, who kept driving her even after the separation from Ilan. Sami was an explicit clause in their separation agreement, and he himself said he was divvied up between them like the furniture and the rugs and the silverware. Since she saw Ofer this morning with the phone in his hand and the guilty look on To the End of the Land face, someone had come along and gently but firmly taken the management of her own affairs out of her hands. She had been dismissed, relegated to observer status, a gawking witness. Her thoughts were no To the End of the Land than flashes of emotion. She hovered through the rooms of the house with angular, truncated motions. To the End of the Land they went to the mall to buy clothes and candy and CDs—there was a new Johnny Cash collection out—and all morning she walked beside him in a daze and giggled like a girl at everything he said. She devoured him with gaping wide looks, stocking up unabashedly for the endless years of hunger to come—of course they would come. From the moment he told her he was returning to join his unit, she had no doubt. Three times that morning she excused herself and went to the public restrooms, where she had diarrhea. What did you eat? She kept checking the time. On her watch, on his, on the big clocks in the mall, on the television screens in appliance stores. Time was behaving strangely, sometimes flying, To the End of the Land other times crawling or coming to a complete standstill. It seemed to her that it might not even require much effort to roll it back, not too far, just thirty minutes or an hour at a time would be fine. The big things—time, destiny, God—could sometimes be worn down by petty haggling. They drove downtown to have lunch at a restaurant in the shukwhere they ordered lots of dishes although neither of them had an appetite. He spoke enthusiastically, as if he were telling her about a new video game, and she kept fighting the urge to grasp his head with both hands and look into his eyes so that she could see his soul, which had been slipping away from her for years—although with warmth, with a grin and a wink, as if they were playing a casual game of tag to amuse themselves—but she did not have the courage to do it. She did not have the strength to imagine what would occur after that, and this was further proof of her frequent claim that she had no imagination. But that was no longer true, either. That, too, had changed. Sami would make the drive easier for her, especially the way back, which would undoubtedly be far more difficult than the way there. To the End of the Land had a domestic routine, she To the End of the Land Sami. She liked to listen to him talk about his family, about the complex relationships between the different clans in Abu Ghosh, about the intrigues in the town council, and about the woman he had loved when he was fifteen, and perhaps had never stopped loving even after he was married off to Inaam, his cousin. At least once a week, by total coincidence, he claimed, he would see her in the village. She was a teacher, To the End of the Land there were years when she taught his daughters, and then she became a superintendent. She must have been a strong, opinionated woman, judging by his stories, and he always drew the conversation out so that Ora would ask about her. With touching detail he quoted their chance conversations in the mini-market, the bakery, or on the rare occasions when he drove her in his cab. Ora guessed that she was the only person he allowed himself to talk to about this woman, perhaps because he trusted her never to ask him the one question whose answer was obvious. Sami was a seasoned man, a quick thinker, and his life wisdom was augmented by his business acumen, which had produced, among other things, his own small fleet of taxis. When he was twelve he had a goat, and every year she birthed two kids. And a year-old kid in good health, he once explained to Ora, can sell for a thousand shekels. I put away, and I put away, until I had eight thousand shekels. At seventeen I got my license and bought a Fiatan old model but it worked. I bought it from my teacher, and I was the one boy in the village who came to school with wheels. She never met any of them. Every two or three weeks she set off with Sami on delightful buying trips around the country, and out of some vague intuition she avoided discussing the museum and its intentions with him. Sami never asked, and she wondered what he imagined and how he described these trips to Inaam. The two of them spent days roaming the country together. In Jerusalem, at a local backgammon club, a few men pounced on him, convinced he had grown up with them in the Nachlaot neighborhood, and even claimed to remember him climbing pine trees to watch Hapoel soccer games in the old stadium. And on every trip, even a ten-minute drive, they always got into politics, keenly confabbing over the latest developments. There were also times when it occurred to her that she was learning from him what she would need to know, one day, if—or when—the situation in Israel was reversed, God forbid, and she found herself in his position, and he in hers. That was possible, after all. It was always lurking behind the door. And perhaps, she realized, he thought about that too—perhaps she was teaching him something by still being her self in all this. Because of all these reasons it was very important that she observe him To the End of the Land much as she could, to learn how he had been able to avoid becoming embittered all these years. As far as she could tell be was not even suppressing a silent yet murderous hatred deep inside, as Ilan had always claimed. She was astonished to see—and wished she could learn from him—how he managed to avoid attributing the daily humiliations, large and small, to some personal defect of his own, as she would undoubtedly do with great fervor were she, God To the End of the Land, in his position—and as she in fact had been doing, truth be told, quite a bit during this lousy year. Somehow, within all the chaos, all the mess, he remained a free person, which she herself only rarely managed to be. Now it grows and swells and threatens to burst: her stupidity, her failure in the principled and complicated matter of being a gentle human being in this place, in these times. Sami was a truly gentle man, even if To the End of the Land was hard to tell from his size and his heaviness and his thick features. In gentleness, he had never failed. He once drove her and the kids to the airport to meet Ilan, who was coming back from a trip. The cops at the airport checkpoint took him away for half an hour, while Ora and the boys waited in the taxi. They were little then, Adam was six and Ofer around three, and it was the first time they discovered that their Sami was Arab. When he came back, pale and sweaty, he refused to tell them what had happened. She absentmindedly touches the edge of her upper lip, the one that droops slightly down, the empty one—even her mouth had eventually joined with those who shat on her. He had driven her and Ilan home from the hospital with Ofer because Ilan was afraid to drive that day, said his hands would shake, and on the way from the hospital Sami told them that for him life really only started when Yousra was born, his oldest daughter. During the years that followed, when the boys went to school downtown, Sami drove the carpool she organized for five kids from Tzur Hadassah and Ein Karem. Now he would shuttle Ofer to an operation in Jenin or Nablus, she thought, and she had forgotten to mention this one little detail when she phoned him, but Sami was quick. Her heart sank when she saw his face darken in a deadly coupling of anger and defeat. He got it all in the blink of an eye: he saw Ofer coming down the steps with his uniform and rifle, and realized that Ora was asking him to add his modest contribution to the Israeli war effort. An ashen current had spread slowly through the dark skin of his face, the soot from a fire that leaped up and died down inside him in an instant. He stood without moving and looked as though someone had slapped him, as though she herself had come over and stood facing him, smiled broadly with her light-filled To the End of the Land and warmth, and slapped his face as hard as she could. For one moment they were trapped, the three of them, condemned in a flash: Ofer at the top of the steps, his rifle dangling, a magazine To the End of the Land with a rubber band; she with the silly purple suede handbag that was far too fancy, grotesque even, for a trip like this; and Sami, who did not budge but nevertheless grew smaller and smaller, slowly emptying out. And then she realized how old he had grown. When she first met him he had looked almost like a boy. Twenty-one years had To the End of the Land by, and he was three or four years younger than she was but he To the End of the Land older. To the End of the Land age quickly here— them too, she thought oddly. Even them. She made things worse by getting into the back of the car, not the passenger side where he held the door open for To the End of the Land she always sat next to Sami, how could it possibly be otherwise? He stood by the open door like a man trying to remember something, or muttering a forgotten sentence to himself that had popped into his mind from some distant place, perhaps a prayer or an ancient saying, or a farewell to something that can never be regained. Or perhaps just like a man taking a moment of absolute privacy to inhale the glorious spring air, which was bursting with sunny yellow blossoms of spiny broom and acacia. And only after this brief pause did he get into the To the End of the Land and sit down, upright and rigid, and wait for directions. Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest. His new novel, To the End of the Land the End of the Landfrom which the excerpt in this issue is taken, will be published in September by Knopf. July Read Next. Link Copied! Submit a letter: Email us letters nybooks. This Issue July 15, William Pfaff. To the End of the Land by David Grossman | Books | The Guardian

Look Inside Reading Guide. Reading Guide. Sep 21, To the End of the Land Buy. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, so that no To the End of the Land news can reach her, Ora sets out on an epic hike in the Galilee. She is joined by an unlikely companion—Avram, a former friend and lover with a troubled past—and as they sleep out in the hills, Ora begins to conjure her son. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding To the End of the Land news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the reader, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. David Grossman was born in Jerusalem. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker and has been To the End of the Land into more than forty languages. He is the recipient… More about David Grossman. One of the few novels that feel as though they have made a difference to the world. Like all great literature, it is an act of generosity, opening itself to every human possibility. Unsparing yet compassionate. A powerful meditation. Grossman has produced a sprawling novel that stretches over nearly 35 years of Israeli history. Along with war and peace, life and death, Grossman reckons with the emotional and sexual geometry of Israelis, particularly the secular liberals now in middle age, much like their author. And war and peace. A reminder of what Israel—what any country—is capable of doing to its sons. David Grossman is such a writer. He is a master of the emotionally accurate and significant. A convincing portrait of maternal grit and ingenuity in a time and place of relentless challenge. In this powerful book, there are surprising answers of a kind, but the ongoing strife goes on. Walls have been pulled down, barriers broken, a dimension of feeling has opened in you that was To the End of the Land there before. David Grossman has the ability to look inside a person and discover the unique essence of her humanity; his novels are about what it means to defend this essence against a world designed to extinguish it. To the End of the Land is his most powerful, unflinching story of this defense. His imagination is secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic. The Israel he imagines, beautifully and sorrowfully, is not going to be saved by any divine intervention. Stunning—brilliantly written and beautifully constructed. I devoured this long novel in a feverish trance. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Join Our Authors for Virtual Events. Read An Excerpt. Aug 09, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Sep 21, ISBN Available from:. Audiobook To the End of the Land. Paperback —. Also in Vintage International. Also by David Grossman. See all books by David Grossman. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Nathan Englander. The Glass Room. Sweetness in the Belly. Camilla Gibb. Xander Miller. The Bastard of Istanbul. The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Michael David Lukas. Jamil Jan Kochai. The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje. Yiddish for Pirates. The Forgiven. Lawrence Osborne. The Meursault Investigation. Kamel Daoud. Nazanine Hozar. The People in the Trees. Hanya Yanagihara. The Fever Tree. Jennifer McVeigh. The Gift of Asher Lev. Rooftops of Tehran. Mahbod Seraji. The Map of Love. Ahdaf Soueif. Refuge: A Novel. The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Immigrant, Montana. Amitava Kumar. Leaving Lucy Pear. Anna Solomon. Ghachar Ghochar. Vivek Shanbhag. Heaven and Earth. Paolo Giordano. How to Read the Air. Dinaw Mengestu. In the Beginning. The Night Watch. Sarah Waters. Dark at the Crossing. Elliot Ackerman. Mambo in Chinatown. The Vegetarian. Human Acts. Related Articles. Looking for More Great Reads? Download Hi Res. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices. Read it Forward Read it To the End of the Land. Pass it on!