{"product_id":"someone-to-run-with-a-novel-by-david-grossman-vered-almog-765e","title":"Someone to Run With: A Novel by David Grossman,Vered Almog","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Grossman's Someone to Run With tells the story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem, portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.  When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on her own mission: to rescue a teenage drug addict.  A runaway bestseller in Israel, in the words of the Christian Science Monitor: It's time for Americans to fall in love with (Grossman's) Someone to Run With.  Editorial Reviews  From The New Yorker In Grossman's latest novel, which tumbles along the dusty streets of Jerusalem, adolescent idealism and angst keep the characters on the move. Assaf, a shy misfit, embarks upon a quixotic journey with a lost dog to find its mistress. Tamar, a caustic fifteen-year-old who can sing Mozart and Leonard Cohen on demand, runs away from home to find the criminals who have ensnared her older brother. A young street musician, in the grip of a heroin habit as formidable as his talent, stumbles through his routines with death close behind. The resulting picaresque is a cross between Run Lola Run and Oliver Twist, and as the reader waits for these solitary odysseys to intersect, the urgency becomes almost unbearable. Grossman evokes teen-age nobility and self-hatred in all its pimply particularity, while slyly suggesting that the arduous quest for connections should never be outgrown.  Copyright   2005 The New Yorker   Review  Someone to Run With reveals again that Grossman is one of contemporary literature's most versatile and absorbing writers....A deceptively simple story that is another revelation of Grossman's genius. ?San Francisco Chronicle  Beautiful and arresting...Grossman has created a place of great dangers and improbable strokes of fortune, of compelling suspense and love's labors gained. ?Los Angeles Times  Passionate and heartfelt...a story that is at once universal and specific, a classical fable of love brought to contemporary Israel. ?Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review   About the Author David Grossman has received several international awards for his writing, including the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zigzag Kid. He is the author of several novels and children's books, and a play. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.  Review  Someone to Run With reveals again that Grossman is one of contemporary literature's most versatile and absorbing writers....A deceptively simple story that is another revelation of Grossman's genius. ?San Francisco Chronicle  Beautiful and arresting...Grossman has created a place of great dangers and improbable strokes of fortune, of compelling suspense and love's labors gained. ?Los Angeles Times  Passionate and heartfelt...a story that is at once universal and specific, a classical fable of love brought to contemporary Israel. ?Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review   About the Author David Grossman has received several international awards for his writing, including the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zigzag Kid. He is the author of several novels and children's books, and a play. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.  About the Author David Grossman has received several international awards for his writing, including the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zigzag Kid. He is the author of several novels and children's books, and a play. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41810955337802,"sku":"765e","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/765e.jpg?v=1764185696","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/someone-to-run-with-a-novel-by-david-grossman-vered-almog-765e","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}