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The Heart Is Katmandu
Spontaneous and dreamlike, Hoffmann's images of reality shift in currents of "realness", creating moments of absolute clarity -- life, seized as it is and of itself -- from the "cotton reels of memory". One reel concerns the title fish: "At the beginning of the fifties (Food was scarce in those days. Once a month, in exchange for government stamps, we ate a yellow chicken.) on Passover Eve, Aunt Magda's friend Berthe came to visit her and brought her from the Jordan Valley a large carp in a metal bucket....Aunt Magda filled the bath with water and put the carp in it. Two whole days the carp swam up and down the length of the bath. On the third day, Aunt Magda declared that the carp 'thinks just like we do, ' and sent Uncle Herbert (an expert in Sanskrit) 'to put the fish back in the sea.'"
About: After decades of living in Tel Aviv, Aunt Magda, a widow from Vienna who still speaks German, offers views of her childhood, her marriage, her nephew, apple strudel, and a gentleman admirer
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