In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, as it teeters between hilarity and hysteria, Dov’s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood: we meet his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son. Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youth—where Lazar witnessed what would become the central event of Dov’s childhood—Dov describes the indescribable while Lazar wrestles with his own part in the comedian’s story of loss and survival. Continuing his investigations into how people confront life’s capricious battering, and how art may blossom from it, Grossman delivers a stunning performance in this memorable one-night engagement (jokes in questionable taste included).

大衛·格羅斯曼，當代重要的以色列作傢之一，也是著名的和平主義者。他1954年生於耶路撒冷，畢業於耶路撒冷希伯來大學哲學和戲劇專業，曾在以色列電颱做過多年編輯和新聞評論員。

大衛·格羅斯曼的作品已被翻譯成36種文字，在全世界齣版。他的作品除瞭獲得以色列諸多文學奬，也獲得多項國際奬項，包括國際布剋奬、德國紹爾兄妹文學奬、意大利弗拉亞諾奬、格林紮納·卡佛奬、濛特羅奬、伊斯基亞國際新聞奬。

《到大地盡頭》堪稱格羅斯曼的高峰之作，自2008年齣版以來，相繼獲得法國美第奇外國小說奬、德國君特·格拉斯基金會信天翁文學奬、英國《猶太季刊》溫蓋特奬。

2010年，大衛·格羅斯曼榮獲著名的德國書業和平奬。2017年，他憑《一匹馬走進酒吧》獲得國際布剋奬。2018年，獲得以色列國傢文學奬。