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Vowing to never grow up and enter the brutality of the adult world in Jerusalem, the imaginative Ahron, once the ringleader of his friends, ignores the growing regimentation that they call patriotism as Israel approaches the Six-Day War. Reprint.

"This stunning new novel by the Israeli writer David Grossman belongs in the pantheon of great books that feature a definitively post-Freudian child as the protagonist....Despite its narrow domestic focus, 'The Book of Intimate Grammar' is rich and dense, full of startling perceptions and dark, ironic wit. It is a complex book containing multiple layers of meaning. It can be read, at once, as a tale of magic realism, a parable about the damage left in the wake of the Holocaust, a psychological portrait of a child's descent into madness and, finally, as a comical but searing indictment of the Jewish family."

Lore Dickstein, New York Times Book Review, 11/13/94

"Unlike our own pioneers and practitioners of the non-fiction novel, Grossman is never a showy presence either in his reportage or his fiction. But from the impression his prose has made on Israel's leading writer--A.B. Yehoshua has been teaching a course on The Book--one may gather that Grossman is as stimulating artistically as he is brave in reporting the true relation between the occupied and the occupier."

Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books

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