ISBN: 9781921145230

Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet. With this riddle Samson poses the even greater puzzle of why a strong and powerful young man should cho… Altro …

Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet. With this riddle Samson poses the even greater puzzle of why a strong and powerful young man should choose to impress, or confound, his peers with a brainteaser they can't possibly answer, rather than a demonstration of his unique strength. Grossman finds many contradictions in Samson's singular personality; with his twenty-first-century perspective on this ancient tale, he shows us how Samson and his people, and all their strife over strength, power and love are as relevant now as they were when lions prowled the promised land. David Grossman is one of Israel's leading writers. His award-winning novels include See Under: Love , The Book of Intimate Grammar and The Zigzag Kid , and two powerful accounts of his encounters with Palestinians, The Yellow Wind and Sleeping on a Wire , as well as a number of children's books and a play. textpublishing.com.au 'A writer of passionate honesty, unafraid to ask terrible questions.' Nadine Gordimer 'A writer who has been one of the most original and talented not only in his own country but anywhere.' New York Times Book Review Fiction Fiction eBook, The Text Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781921145230

Paperback, [PU: Text Publishing Co], 'There are few other bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson- the battle wi… Altro …

Paperback, [PU: Text Publishing Co], 'There are few other bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson- the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his murderous suicide, when he brought the house down on himself and three thousand Philistines.'Yet, beyond the wild impulsiveness, the chaos, the din, we can make out a life story that is, at bottom, the tortured journey of a single, lonely and turbulent soul who never found, anywhere, a true home in the world, whose very body was a harsh place of exile.'For me, this discovery, this recognition, is the point at which the myth - for all its grand images, its larger-than-life adventures - slips silently into the day-to-day existence of each of us, into our most private moments, our buried secrets.'From David Grossman's introduction, Contemporary Fiction<