More Than I Love My Life

"More Than I Love My Life" is a novel by Israeli author David Grossman that was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. It is a profound testament to the emotional power of fiction and shows why some critics regard Grossman as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel is about the power of love and loving with courage, and follows the journey of three women from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia, where their grandmother was held and tortured as a political prisoner.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 26 August 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

An epic, profoundly moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage, from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar.

On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But festivities are interrupted by the arrival of Nina: the iron-willed daughter who rejected Vera's care; and the absent mother who abandoned Gili when she was still a baby.

Nina's return to the family after years of silence precipitates an epic journey from Israel to the desolate island of Goli Otok, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It was here, five decades earlier, that Vera was held and tortured as a political prisoner. And it is here that the three women will finally come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma that Vera faced, and that permanently altered the course of their lives.

More Than I Love My Life ... is a profound testament to the emotional power of fiction and shows why some critics regard Grossman as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Financial Times: Immaculately translated by Jessica Cohen, this is another extraordinary novel from Grossman, a book as beautiful and sad as anything you'll read this year.

Observer: This is a novel of immense emotional power, written with the same exquisite prose and moral complexity that have made Grossman one of the most celebrated authors of our time.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787332935