Product Description: Truly eye-opening, Katschen & The Book of joseph makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Both of these intensely moving novellas display the entirely original poetry of Hoffmann's atomized hypnotic language, which Rosmarie Waldrop has called "utterly enchanting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Set in 1940's Palestine, Bernhard concerns a German-Jewish widower. Devastated by the loss of his wife, Bernhard disconsolately walks the streets of Jerusalem, considering Gandhi, analysis, the beauty of his wife Paula's neck, his Arab neighbors, Kokoschka, the Messiah, and the inner life of his friend Gustav the plumber...read more

Translated from the Hebrew, a novel by an Israeli author acclaimed for his psychologically illuminating, diamond-sharp style traces the inner world of a Jewish man devastated by his wife's death and the recent ravages of World War II.

In two novellas, a Russian Jew flees with his son to Germany in the 1930s after the Cossacks kill his wife, and a little boy struggles to adjust to life in Palestine when he is orphaned (view table of contents)

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

In a story set in modern-day Haifa, Yehoahim, a 43-year-old recently divorced man who is still recovering from the collapse of his marriage, meets and falls in love with Batya, an attractive woman with a Mongolian baby.

Product Description: Shunra is Aramaic for cat. Schmetterling is German for butterfly. In Yoel Hoffmann's new book, these and numerous other creatures, cultures, and languages meet in a magical shimmering hymn to childhood. Hoffmann traces his hero's developing consciousness of the ways-and-wonders of the world as though he were peering through a tremendous kaleidoscope: all that was perceived, all that is remembered, is rendered in fluid fragments of color and light...read more