The Christ of Fish is a gorgeous novel conjured out of a mosaic of 233 pieces of Aunt Magda's life in Tel Aviv. Originally from Vienna, Hoffmann's heroine is a widow who still speaks German after decades in Israel: we see many views of Aunt Magda—her childhood, her marriage, her nephew, her best friend Frau Stier, Wildegans' poetry, apple strudel, visions and dreams, two stolen handbags, a favorite café, and a gentleman admirer.
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The Israeli avant-garde genius--in English at last. -- Forward
The stunning Romanian-born Israeli author Yoel Hoffmann, dreamlike and precise, wrenches your heart. -- The New Leader
These exquisite shards of memories, crystallized in language: an attempt to find out "how (by virtue of what principle) the universe keeps going. -- Review of Contemporary Fiction, Allen Hibbard, Spring 2000 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The stunning Romanian-born Israeli author Yoel Hoffmann, dreamlike and precise, wrenches your heart. -- The New Leader
These exquisite shards of memories, crystallized in language: an attempt to find out "how (by virtue of what principle) the universe keeps going. -- Review of Contemporary Fiction, Allen Hibbard, Spring 2000 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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It takes an excellent author to write convincingly in a vary sparce voice e.g. Annie Erneaux or Margaurite Duras. It also takes an excellent author to piece together an interesting novel out of very small vignettes. Yoel Hoffman has done both in The Christ of Fish - a must read novel that already has me yearning for an encore
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Aunt Magda, Frau Stier, Herr Doktor Staub, Uncle Herbert, Adolf Hertz, Tel Aviv, Café Pilz, Jordan Valley, Simcha Bunis, Anton Wildegans, Moishe Zainder, Theodor Weiss, Allenby Street, Doctor Mendelssohn, Herbert Hirsch, Hugo Jacobson, Madame Edna, Mancy Gross, Opera House, Shraga Wallach New!
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Aunt Magda, Frau Stier, Herr Doktor Staub, Uncle Herbert, Adolf Hertz, Tel Aviv, Café Pilz, Jordan Valley, Simcha Bunis, Anton Wildegans, Moishe Zainder, Theodor Weiss, Allenby Street, Doctor Mendelssohn, Herbert Hirsch, Hugo Jacobson, Madame Edna, Mancy Gross, Opera House, Shraga Wallach New!
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- Comparative Criticism: Volume 17, Walter Pater and the Culture of the Fin-de-Siècle by E. S. Shaffer in Front Matter, and page 131
- Sloan-Kettering: Poems by Abba Kovner in Back Matter
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