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David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.

Nicole Krauss

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Nicole Krauss
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: August 18
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Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
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Apart
May
Essence
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Unflinching
Land
Shattering
Taken
Undone
Powerful
Gifted
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David
Place
Touched

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