Curriculum Vitae

24 July 2009

Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.

Yoel Hoffmann (Author), Peter Cole (Translator)

Description

“The most interesting and experimental novelist in Israel.”—Review Of Contemporary Fiction

Yoel Hoffmann’s Curriculum Vitae is the remarkable summation of the writer’s life: his escape from the Holocaust; his arrival in Palestine; time in an orphanage; youth; two marriages; fatherhood; his studies of Japanese Buddhism; his travels; his ever-busy inner life. Curriculum Vitae begins quietly but becomes more and more hypnotic and amazing.

Funny, gorgeous and utterly unique, Curriculum Vitae is Yoel Hoffmann’s triumphant look backward and inward: How stupid we are to let the world toss us from one place to another, while we need to speak to dentists and poets like warehouse clerks who keep an account of old equipment (bags here and belts there) and pile it up on the floor. What do we remember? The lake at Biwa and the houses across it. The cherry blossoms and Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidenak....

“Hoffmann,” as the Chicago Tribune put it, “is not just a good writer but a great one, with the ability to find, in the moment-to-moment dislocation of daily existence, epiphanies of revelatory force . . . What Hoffmann has achieved is a kind of magic.” Hoffmann has also been hailed as “miraculous” (A. B. Yehoshua), “spectacular” (The New Yorker), “radiant” (World Literature Today), and “stunning” (The New Leader).

Reviews

"Hoffmann writes in a language of miracles." — American Book Review

"A reason to celebrate...Hoffmann shows himself to be an artist of the profoundly fantastic." — Hadassah Magazine

"A writer of international importance...Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brightening his prose with snatches of verse, songs, diary excerpts, letters, ominous dreams, lush erotic passages and Yiddish sayings." — Publishers Weekly

"Part novel, part memoir, part neither, Curriculum Vitae is a frolicking dive into the self of the writer." — Phillip Witte, Three Percent

"These bits and pieces of polished writing—like small, well-crafted gems—form a mosaic and give one a full portrait." — Robert Leiter, Jewish Exponent

"A wise and delicate book." — Yediot Aharonot

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Paperback

9780811218320

132 x 206 mm • 128 pages

£12.99

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