The Book of Intimate Grammar

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 343. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Peter Dyer, with rear panel blurbs by Nadine Gordimer, George Steiner, Nick Hornby, Edmund White, et al.

Signed by Grossman to title-page.

Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg. Originally published in 1991 under the title Sefer ha-Dikduk ha-Pnimi, by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv.

Author's third novel. A case of arrested development, reminiscent of Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum, and set in Jerusalem as the country lurches towards the Six-Day War. By a master delineator of the inner life of the child and the loss of childhood. Winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks into a Bar. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature, the state's highest cultural honour.

"Like [Virginia] Woolf, Grossman is uncanny at reproducing an experience from the inside out... the writing reminds you of the great, solemn mystery of literature, what the poet Czeslaw Milosz calls 'the human possibility of being someone else.'" –Chicago Tribune