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David Grossman: 'I know what it's like to live on with trauma'

In his new novel Life is Playing with Me, David Grossman (66) tells the gripping story of a woman who abandoned her child and braved the horrors on Croatian prison island Goli Otok. 'She was Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the same person.'
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More than 20 years ago, David Grossman's phone rang. A woman by the name of Eva Panić Nahir had something to say about an article he had published in an Israeli newspaper. Grossman glimpsed...

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In his new novel Life is Playing with Me, David Grossman (66) tells the gripping story of a woman who abandoned her child and braved the horrors on Croatian prison island Goli Otok. 'She was Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the same person.'
Criticism
More than 20 years ago, David Grossman's phone rang. A woman by the name of Eva Panić Nahir had something to say about an article he had published in an Israeli newspaper. Grossman glimpsed...

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