IN DAVID Grossman’s unforgettable novel See Under: Love, the child of two Holocaust survivors finds that his parents refer to it as something that took place “over there”. The characters in Falling Out of Time walk to go “there” to find their dead children. They do not know what or where “there” is, but believe it is where they might find their lost loved ones. To reach it, they walk around, literally and tellingly, in circles.Written in the form of a play, largely in blank verse, and hard to classify, most lines in Grossman’s new book have one or two, even three stresses, evoking the rhythm of walking. It has the mournful, mythical echoes of Greek tragedy, a little of Samuel Beckett, with a touch of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Grossma
19 June 2014, The Tablet
Falling Out of Time
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