Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry – and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he’s been summoned to this performance. His most recent novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar, was awarded the International Man Booker Prize 2017, and shortlisted for the TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize 2019. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. David Grossman is the bestselling author of numerous works, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic – charming, erratic, repellent – exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him.Ī Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
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