To the End of the Land
To the End of the Land is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their loved ones are deployed into combat. Grossman began writing the novel in May 2003 when his oldest son Yonatan was serving in the Israel Defense Forces and the book was largely completed by August 2006 when his younger son Uri was killed in the Second Lebanon War.
