David Grossman was born in Jerusalem and studied Philosophy and Theatre at the Hebrew University. He is one of Israel’s most important authors and his novels have been widely translated into many languages. They include: The Book of Intimate Grammar (1992), The Smile of the Lamb (1994), The Zigzag Kid (1996), Be My Knife (1999), See Under: Love (1999), Someone to Run With (2001), Duel (2001), Her Body Knows (2003), Death as a Way of Life: from Oslo to the Geneva Agreement (2003), Lion’s Honey (2007), Uri’s Special Language (2007), To the End of the Land (2008), The Embrace (2011), Falling out of Time (2012), A Horse Walks into a Bar (2014) and The Sun Princess (2015), all published by Mondadori.