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A bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris breaks into a morgue to recreate Mantegna’s Lamentation of Christ. A scripture (with commentary!) tells of a mythical nation uniting to construct a monument to their deity, then falling into chaos when no one can agree on its precise form or dimensions. Hailed from publication as one of the finest novels ever written in Hebrew, A Room is in the league of Gravity’s Rainbow or The Recognitions: a monumental, subversive classic of twentieth-century literature.



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"A Room is strongly recommended to readers of post-modern and experimental fiction who enjoy stream of consciousness narratives and who are willing to delve deeper than a thin plot’s surface level." -New York Journal of Books


"Shimoni's heavily experimental book has been likened to J.R. Gaddis' Recognitions and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow." -Kirkus Reviews

A Room

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    A Paperback by Youval Shimoni, Michael Sharp

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      Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
      Published 14 April 2016
      ISBN-13 9781628971330
      978-1628971330
      ISBN-10 1628971339

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris breaks into a morgue to recreate Mantegna’s Lamentation of Christ. A scripture (with commentary!) tells of a mythical nation uniting to construct a monument to their deity, then falling into chaos when no one can agree on its precise form or dimensions. Hailed from publication as one of the finest novels ever written in Hebrew, A Room is in the league of Gravity’s Rainbow or The Recognitions: a monumental, subversive classic of twentieth-century literature.



      Trade Review

      "A Room is strongly recommended to readers of post-modern and experimental fiction who enjoy stream of consciousness narratives and who are willing to delve deeper than a thin plot’s surface level." -New York Journal of Books


      "Shimoni's heavily experimental book has been likened to J.R. Gaddis' Recognitions and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow." -Kirkus Reviews

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