The heart is Katmandu / Yoel Hoffmann ; translated by Peter Cole = [ha-Lev hu Ḳaṭmandu / Yoʾel Hofman].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffmann, Yoel, 1937-2023

Contributor:

Cole, Peter, 1957-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Lev hu Ḳaṭmandu. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Lev hu Ḳaṭmandu

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 2001.

Summary:

Yoel Hoffmann -- Israel's most highly acclaimed avant-garde novelist (a "genius" in the words of Kirkus Reviews) -- has in his new novel launched off into fresh territories. His hero, whose wife has left him, floats aimlessly about Haifa. One day he meets Batya, and a raw, awkward love is born. The Heart Is Katmandu is a book in which shyness and stumbling tenderness emerge triumphant: a tale of paradise gained. Published to enormous acclaim in Israel this year ("In this book Yoel Hoffmann flies more beautifully than any other Israeli author I know", Ma'arive Magazine), The Heart Is Katmandu takes a very surprising leap away from the wrenching sadness of the Holocaust which informed the agonizing beauty of Bernhard as well as of Katschen & The Book of Joseph.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0811214656

OCLC:

45637090