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The Heart is Katmandu

Fiction

Yoel Hoffmann
translated by Peter Cole

The Heart Is Katmandu tells a tale of new love—of paradise gained. Set in today's Haifa and presented in 237 dream-like small chapters, it is a book in which shyness and stumbling tenderness emerge triumphant. Poet Peter Cole has made a beautiful translation, capturing Hoffmann's intense and unfathomably original style. A starred Kirkus Review acclaimed the novel "Beautiful, humane, priceless."

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Yoel Hoffmann

Yoel Hoffman is a contemporary Jewish author and translator who teaches at the University of Haifa in Israel.

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Publication Date: November 1, 2006

Cloth $22.95
CN 0.00
144 pages
ISBN 9780811214650

Paperback $ 13.95
CN 18.00
144 pages
ISBN 9780811216821

trim size: 5x8

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