Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson

Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson

by David Grossman (Author), David Grossman (Author), Stuart Schoffman (Translator)

Synopsis

'There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his murderous suicide, when he brought the house down on himself and three thousand Philistines.' 'Yet, beyond the wild impulsiveness, the chaos, the din, we can make out a life story that is, at bottom, the tortured journey of a single, lonely and turbulent soul who never found, anywhere, a true home in the world, whose very body was a harsh place of exile.' 'For me, this discovery, this recognition, is the point at which the myth - for all its grand images, its larger-than-life adventures - slips silently into the day-to-day existence of each of us, into our most private moments, our buried secrets.' - from David Grossman's Introduction to "Lion's Honey". This work is part of the "Canongate Myths" series.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 155
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 01 Jun 2006

ISBN 10: 1841956562
ISBN 13: 9781841956565

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Author Bio
David Grossman is a leading Israeli writer whose work has been translated into 25 languages. He is author of six internationally acclaimed novels and a number of children's books. Grossman has been presented with numerous awards including the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France). He lives with his wife and children in a suburb of Jerusalem.