- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: New Directions (Nov 1 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811216829
- ISBN-13: 978-0811216821
- Product Dimensions: 19.5 x 13 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 23 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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From Publishers Weekly
Sensual details of everyday life are magnified and distorted in Yoel Hoffmann's uncommon romance, The Heart Is Katmandu, translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole. Yehoahim and Batya come together in modern-day Haifa; each has an uncertain past that includes lost love. We are given a glimpse into their minds, where ordinary words and objects become totems, religion and art serve as touchstones, and meaning is as ephemeral as love itself. Less a novel than a loosely woven series of impressionistic prose poems, this will enchant and baffle discriminating readers. ( Apr. 23)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
A beautiful, but not naive, expression of the power of love over both the heart and mind. -- Jerusalem Post, Leslie Cohen, 20 July 2001
A reason to celebrate. -- Molly Abramowitz, Hadassah Magazine
Stunning...dreamlike and precise, [Hoffmann] wrenches your heart. -- The New Leader
[A]n extraordinary book, beautifully translated by Peter Cole. -- Hadassah Magazine, Joan Baum, December 2001
[C]onfirms that Hoffman is the most interesting and experimental novelist in Israel. -- Review of Contemporary Fiction, Irving Malin, Fall 2001
[N]ot just a simple love story. It is also about the beauty of the ordinary and the everyday. -- Jewish Exponent, 21 July 2001 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
A reason to celebrate. -- Molly Abramowitz, Hadassah Magazine
Stunning...dreamlike and precise, [Hoffmann] wrenches your heart. -- The New Leader
[A]n extraordinary book, beautifully translated by Peter Cole. -- Hadassah Magazine, Joan Baum, December 2001
[C]onfirms that Hoffman is the most interesting and experimental novelist in Israel. -- Review of Contemporary Fiction, Irving Malin, Fall 2001
[N]ot just a simple love story. It is also about the beauty of the ordinary and the everyday. -- Jewish Exponent, 21 July 2001 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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At age 43, Yehoahim seldom ate cucumbers. Read the first page
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a reluctant 5 but if you don't read Hoffman ...,
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This review is from: Heart Is Katmandu (Hardcover)
Thru the first fifth or so of these book, I thought I may have finally found a book by Yoel Hoffmann that I didn't love. Because of that, I would strongly urge anyone who has read nothing of Hoffmann's to begin with "Katschen & The Book of Joseph" rather than this book.In the small units (chapters? prose poems? fragments?) that make up this book, Hoffman builds an understanding (an impression? an empathy?) for the experience of falling in love. This woman loves man loves woman loves child loves mother ... story builds within the individual characters, within the world, within the religious universe in unusual connections: "Now his life, too, seems like a story, except that here there occur the same eruptions that take place on the surface of the sun, and he hears the sound of this burning, like the song which is of this world alone: 'Frere Jacques.'"
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a reluctant 5 but if you don't read Hoffman ...,
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This review is from: Heart Is Katmandu (Hardcover)
Thru the first fifth or so of these book, I thought I may have finally found a book by Yoel Hoffmann that I didn't love. Because of that, I would strongly urge anyone who has read nothing of Hoffmann's to begin with "Katschen & The Book of Joseph" rather than this book.In the small units (chapters? prose poems? fragments?) that make up this book, Hoffman builds an understanding (an impression? an empathy?) for the experience of falling in love. This woman loves man loves woman loves child loves mother ... story builds within the individual characters, within the world, within the religious universe in unusual connections: "Now his life, too, seems like a story, except that here there occur the same eruptions that take place on the surface of the sun, and he hears the sound of this burning, like the song which is of this world alone: 'Frere Jacques.'" |
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