. Brilliant, blistering. With Dovaleh, Grossman has created a character who.s captivating and horrific and a stand-up routine that.s disgusting and authentically human. I can hardly say how the book achieves its bewitching effects. It all happened so fast. . Ken Kalfus, Washington Post
. Unrelentingly claustrophobic. The violence that A Horse Walks Into A Bar explores is more private and intimate. Its central interest is not the vicious treatment of vulnerable others but the cruelty that wells up within families, circulates like a poison in tight-knit groups, and finally turns inward against the self. Strategic weaving together of manic humour and tears. Searing and poignant. . Stephen Greenblatt, New York Review of Books
. Much of it is extremely funny, but it.s also tightly controlled and carefully paced. Few writers hold a more unflinching mirror up to Israeli society than Grossman. [A Horse Walks into a Bar] is a work of sombre brilliance and disquieting rage, an unsparing exploration of the seductive spell of escapism and .the corruption that is in cynicism.. . Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times
. This is a virtuoso piece of writing, a whirlwind of laughter and tears that sucks you in and makes you holds your breath. . John Harding, Daily Mail
