Katschen and the Book of Joseph Hardcover - 1998
by Yoel Hoffmann; David Kriss; Edward a. Levenston
Truly eye-opening, KATSCHEN & THE BOOK OF JOSEPH makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. THE BOOK OF JOSEPH tells the tragic story of a widowed Jewish tailor and his son in 1930's Berlin; KATSCHEN gives an astounding child's-eye-view of a boy orphaned in Palestine. These two intensely moving novellas display the poetry of Hoffmann's language, which one reviewer has called "utterly enchanting . . . like nothing else".
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Katschen & The Book of Joseph makes an American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Intensely moving, the two novellas display the entirely original poetry and hypnotic verve of Hoffmann's atomized language. "The Book of Joseph" tells the tragic story of a widowed Jewish tailor and his son in 1930s Berlin. "Katschen" gives an astounding child's-eye view of a boy orphaned in Palestine.
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- Title Katschen and the Book of Joseph
- Author Yoel Hoffmann; David Kriss; Edward a. Levenston
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition US First Edition
- Pages 162
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
- Date May 1998
- ISBN 9780811213738 / 0811213730
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.34 x 5.7 x 0.77 in (21.18 x 14.48 x 1.96 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Jewish fiction, Orphans - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97050300
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/1998, Page 691
- Publishers Weekly, 03/30/1998, Page 68
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