We had a right to go to war. But things got complicated... I believe that there is more than one course of action available.

Of course I am grieving, but my pain is greater than my anger. I am in pain for this country and for what you [Olmert] and your friends are doing to it.

There were people who stereotyped me, who considered me this naive leftist who would never send his own children into the army, who didn't know what life was made of. I think those people were forced to realise that you can be very critical of Israel and yet still be an integral part of it; I speak as a reservist in the Israeli army myself.

• In 1984, Grossman won the Prime Minister's Prize for Creative Work;
• In 2004, he was awarded the Italian prize Premio Flaiano;
• In 2004, he was a co-recipient (jointly with Haya Shenhav and Ephraim Sidon) of the Bialik Prize for literature;
• In 2007, he was awarded the Emet Prize;
• In 2008, he received the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis.
• In 2010, he received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

• Duel [?? ??? / Du-krav, 1982]. London: Bloomsbury, 1998, ISBN 0-7475-4092-6
• The Smile of the Lamb [???? ???? / Hiyukh ha-gedi: roman, 1983]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990, ISBN 0-374-26639-5
• See Under: Love [???? ???: ???? / Ayen erekh...-ahavah: roman, 1986]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989, ISBN 0-374-25731-0
• The Book of Intimate Grammar [??? ?????? ?????? / Sefer ha-dikduk ha-penimi: roman, 1991]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994, ISBN 0-374-11547-8
• The Zigzag Kid [?? ????? ??? ?? / Yesh yeladim zigzag, 1994]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997, ISBN 0-374-52563-3 - won two prizes in Italy: the Premio Mondello in 1996, and the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1997.
• Be My Knife [????? ?? ????? / She-tihyi li ha-sakin, 1998]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001, ISBN 0-374-29977-3
• Someone to Run With [????? ???? ???? / Mishehu laruts ito, 2000]. London: Bloomsbury, 2003, ISBN 0-7475-6207-5
• Her Body Knows: two novellas [???? ??? ????? / Ba-guf ani mevinah: tsemed novelot, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-17557-8

• The Yellow Wind [???? ????? / Ha-Zeman ha-tsahov, 1987]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988, ISBN 0-374-29345-7
• Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel [?????? ?????? / Nokhehim Nifkadim, 1992]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993, ISBN 0-374-17788-0
• Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years after Oslo [???? ???? ???? / Mavet ke-derech khayyim, 2003]. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003, ISBN 0-374-10211-2
• Lion’s honey : the myth of Samson [??? ????? / Dvash arayiot, 2005]. Edinburgh; New York: Canongate, 2006, ISBN 1-84195-656-2

• Smile of the Lamb (novel) was the basis for an award-winning film written and directed by Shimon Dotan.
• Someone to Run With (novel) was the basis for a film directed by Oded Davidoff.