Description
In the poor neighborhoods of Jerusalem, Aron Kleinfeld is a boy on the edge of growing up—surrounded by family history, quiet grief, and the daily pressures of loneliness. From ages eleven to fifteen, his world is shaped by fear and constraint, yet he discovers an intimate grammar of feeling: the way language, memory, and imagination can turn isolation into meaning and possibility. This Bildungsroman traces his struggle to understand love, loss, and belonging as he learns how to speak his own life into being. With David Grossman’s lyrical, emotionally exacting storytelling and Betsy Rosenberg’s sensitive translation, the novel explores childhood’s alchemy—how vulnerability can become creation, and how the past continues to echo in the present without surrendering hope.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Oct 4, 2002
352 pages
ISBN: 9781466803749
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First Published
2002
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman.