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).

大卫·格罗斯曼，当代重要的以色列作家之一，也是著名的和平主义者。他1954年生于耶路撒冷，毕业于耶路撒冷希伯来大学哲学和戏剧专业，曾在以色列电台做过多年编辑和新闻评论员。

大卫·格罗斯曼的作品已被翻译成36种文字，在全世界出版。他的作品除了获得以色列诸多文学奖，也获得多项国际奖项，包括国际布克奖、德国绍尔兄妹文学奖、意大利弗拉亚诺奖、格林扎纳·卡佛奖、蒙特罗奖、伊斯基亚国际新闻奖。

《到大地尽头》堪称格罗斯曼的高峰之作，自2008年出版以来，相继获得法国美第奇外国小说奖、德国君特·格拉斯基金会信天翁文学奖、英国《犹太季刊》温盖特奖。

2010年，大卫·格罗斯曼荣获著名的德国书业和平奖。2017年，他凭《一匹马走进酒吧》获得国际布克奖。2018年，获得以色列国家文学奖。