Lion's Honey (12 page)
Authors: David Grossman
Myths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives – they explore our desires, our fears, our longings, and provide narratives that remind us what it means to be human.
The Myths
series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include: Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Karen Armstrong, AS Byatt, David Grossman, Milton Hatoum, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Victor Pelevin, Ali Smith, Donna Tartt, Su Tong, Dubravka Ugresic, Salley Vickers and Jeanette Winterson.
Death As a Way of Life: Dispatches from Jerusalem (2003)
The Body
(untranslated, 2002)
Someone to Run With
(2000)
Be My Knife
(1998)
The Zigzag Kid
(1994)
Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Israeli Palestinians
(1992)
The Book of Intimate Grammar
(1991)
The Yellow Wind
(1987)
See Under: Love
(1986)
The Smile of the Lamb
(1983)
Duel
(1982)
First published in Great Britain in 2006 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,
Edinburgh,
EH1
1TE
This digital edition first published in 2009
by Canongate Books
Copyright © David Grossman, 2005
Translation copyright © Stuart Schoffman, 2006
The right of David Grossman and Stuart Schoffman to be identified as respectively the author and translator of the work has been asserted
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ISBN
978 1 84767 687 0
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