"One of contemporary literature’s most versatile and absorbing writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) explores the myth of Samson, one of the most tempestuous, charismatic, and colourful characters in the Hebrew Bible.

“He is walking along with his parents, tears a lion limb from limb with his bare hands, and says nothing. Why is he silent?
With the gorgeous prose and knife’s-edge precision for which he is known, David Grossman discusses the myth of Samson—a story Grossman believes is, despite the chaos and glamour, the story of every lonely man.
There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his murderous suicide, when he brought the house down on himself and three thousand Philistines.