In the Ice-Box
Janette Turner Hospital, 12 January 1995
The Book of Intimate Grammar
by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg.
Cape, 343 pp., £14.99, September 1994,0 224 03285 2 Show More
by David Grossman, translated by Betsy Rosenberg.
Cape, 343 pp., £14.99, September 1994,
“... as pain, as malformation, as stunted growth. In this novel, as in his earlier See Under: Love, David Grossman reveals himself as a compassionate epidemiologist for those who experience history as inexorably degenerative disease, for lives which might be said to suffer from history as claustrophobia. For Grossman in both novels, as for Grass in The Tin ... ”