eCognoscente - Literature - Hiking the Galilee - To the End of the Land - with David Grossman

David Grossman's To the End of the Land is a wake for the living and the dead, for life in contemporary Israel and for the death of his son and all the soldiers lost in battle: a lament that encompasses war and bereavement but that also rejoices in life itself as it lingers on moments of love, of childhood, of the traumas of war, of this journey in the Galilee with its lovely landscape of terebinths and spurge....