Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson (Canongate Myths) - Hardcover

Extraordinary, ground-breaking, empowering. * * Guardian * * A writer of passionate honesty, unafraid to ask terrible questions. -- Nadine Gordimer One of contemporary literature's most versatile and absorbing writers. * * San Francisco Chronicle * * A writer who has been one of the most original and talented not only in his own country but anywhere. * * New York Times Book Review * *

'Let my soul die with the Philistines.' Samson the hero; a brave warrior, leader of men and Nazarite of God? Or a misfit given to whoring and lust, who failed to fulfil his destiny? In Lion's Honey, award-winning writer David Grossman takes on one of the most vivid and controversial characters in the Bible. Revisting Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal by them all - including the only one he ever loved - Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story and its climax, Samson's final act of death, bringing down a temple on himself and three thousand Philistines. In exhilarating and lucid prose, Grossman reveals the journey of a single, lonely and tortured soul who never found a true home in the world, who was uncomfortable in his very body and who, some might say, was the precursor of today's suicide bombers.