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Samson the hero; a brave warrior, leader of men and Nazarite of God? Or a misfit given to whoring and lust, who failed to fulfill his destiny? In Lion's Honey, David Grossman takes on one of the most vivid and controversial characters in the Bible. Revisiting Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal by them all - including the only one he ever loved - Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story and its climax, Samson's final act of death, bringing down a temple on himself and three thousand Philistines.
Grossman reveals the journey of a single, lonely and tortured soul who never found a true home in the world, who was uncomfortable in his very body and who, some might say, was the precursor of today's suicide bombers.
Grossman reveals the journey of a single, lonely and tortured soul who never found a true home in the world, who was uncomfortable in his very body and who, some might say, was the precursor of today's suicide bombers.
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Extraordinary, ground-breaking, empowering. * * Guardian * * A writer of passionate honesty, unafraid to ask terrible questions. -- Nadine Gordimer One of contemporary literature's most versatile and absorbing writers. * * San Francisco Chronicle * * A writer who has been one of the most original and talented not only in his own country but anywhere. * * New York Times Book Review * *
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"Let my soul die with the Philistines"
Samson - hero or misfit? Revisiting Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal
by them all - including the only one he ever loved - Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story,
and Samson's controversial final act of death, when he brought down a temple on himself and three thousand
Philistines. Revealed as a single, lonely and tortured soul who always operated outside the norm, we are forced
to recognise Samson in the world we live in today.
"A writer of passionate honesty, unafraid to ask terrible questions." Nadine Gordimer
"Enriching and entertaining ... it is to be savoured in precisely the manner in which Grossman here savours his subject, with enjoyable, intelligent appreciation." Times Literary Supplement
"His journey takes us to the heart of ourselves, in this millennia-old creation of a man, like Oedipus, whose
tragedy was that his own predestined story was too big for his soul to bear." Independent
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1841957429
- ISBN 13 9781841957425
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages155
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