Week 8: A Horse Walks into a Bar

This week's book is A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman, winner of the 2017 Man Booker International prize. Watch as Dovaleh slowly descends into madness while giving a stand-up comedy show at a comedy club in Netanya. Dovaleh's breakdown is perhaps a physical and emotional manifestation of the damaged psyche of a nation trying to live a normal existence, under extremely abnormal circumstances.

 

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Book mentioned in the episode: To the End of the Land by David Grossman

David Grossman’s interview with The Harvard Gazette: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/10/israels-grossman-reflects/ 

B'Tselem, NGO mentioned in the episode: https://www.btselem.org/