WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. 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. 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. 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.

A Horse Walks into a Baris a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesnt know whether to laugh or cry and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why hes been summoned to this performance.

David Grossmanis the bestselling author of numerous works, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. His most recent novels wereTo the End of the Land, described by Jacqueline Rose as without question one of the most powerful and moving novels I have ever read, andFalling Out of Time. He is the recipient of the French Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres and the 2010 Frankfurt Peace Prize.