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Himmo King of Jerusalem

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This novel is almost impossible to get (my library copy was last read in August 1977!) but if you can, this work will provide the reader with a detailed and difficult look at the nature of human suffering. Set in a hospital in besieged Jerusalem in 1948, the characters watch the hopes and aspirations of their lives destroyed by war, injury, and disfigurement (both on a physical and emotional level).

And from this field of ugliness, Kaniuk has created a novel of great beauty and range. He shows that in the depth of ugliness and pain, the human spirit can still spring forth and add more vitality to the world.