Fima / Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oz, Amos, 1939-2018

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jerusalem--Fiction.

Jerusalem.

Jewish fiction.

Middle East--Jerusalem.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

322 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Harvest edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1994.

Summary:

Fima lives in Jerusalem, but feels that he is in Jerusalem by mistake, that he ought to be somewhere else. In the course of his life he has had several love affairs, several ideas, has written a book of poems that aroused some expectations, has thought about the purpose of the universe and where the country has lost its way, has spun a detailed fantasy about founding a new political movement, has felt longings of one sort or another, and the constant desire to open a new chapter. And here he is now, in his early fifties, in this shabby flat on a gloomy wet morning, engaged in a humiliating struggle to release the corner of his shirt from the zipper of his fly. With rare wit, intimate knowledge of the human heart, and his usual storytelling mastery, Amos Oz portrays a man - and a generation that dreams noble dreams but does nothing.

Notes:

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Translation of the third condition, originally published in Israel in 1991.

ISBN:

0156001438

9780156001434

OCLC:

32803189