To the End of the Land.
A novel by an author with this surname opens with the protagonist in an isolation ward with Avram and Ilan, and the three of them are soon entangled in a love triangle. In that novel, Ora leaves home and walks to Galilee, writing about the life of her son Ofer, believing that if she's not at home when people come to notify her of Ofer's death in combat, then he will still be alive. Another author with this surname wrote about the nuclear physicist Viktor (*) Shtrum in a novel in which Soviet soldiers hide out in a stronghold called House 6/1 during the Battle of Stalingrad. This is the surname of the Israeli author of To the End of the Land. A woman with this surname is known for her translations of Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, and Don Quixote. For 10 points, name this surname of the translator Edith and the author of Life and Fate, Vasily.
A novel by an author with this surname opens with the protagonist in an isolation ward with Avram and Ilan, and the three of them are soon entangled in a love triangle.
Grossman