Beautifully translated by Peter Cole, The Shunra and the Schmetterling is fiction for lovers of poetry and poetry for lovers of fiction--a small marvel of a book, and one of the author's finest to date.
Yoel Hoffmann—“Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward)—supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinite Part novel and part memoir, Yoel Hoffmann’s Moods is flooded with feelings, evoked ...
The reflections of Bernhardt Stein, a Jew from Berlin, as he observes World War II from his refuge in Palestine. A philosophical novel by an Israeli writer, author of Katschen and the Book of Joseph.
La obra ofrece una selección de poemas dedicados al tema de la muerte escritos por monjes zen y poetas de haiku, relacionando esta poesía con la mentalidad japonesa sobre la dialéctica entre la vida y la muerte.