Internal grammar rules

Aharon Kleinfeld is highly popular among the boys in his Jerusalem neighbourhood, but while his twelve-year-old friends are starting to mature, Aharon remains trapped in the body of a child for three long years. As Israel slowly edges towards the Six-Day War and his friends' changing voices grow increasingly foreign to him, Aharon experiences his childish body as a distressing nightmare. Operating like a spy in enemy territory, he learns to decipher the inner codes of sexuality and desire, and to understand the relentless bureaucracy of the human body. Torn between childhood and adulthood, between purity and the profane, he is a volcano of emotions and inner impulses. Yet, just like his favourite hero Houdini, Aharon constantly tries to escape the trap – the trap of growing up. David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize, is one of the most influential Israeli writers of our time.