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Book SynopsisYoel Hoffmann—“Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward)—supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinite
Trade Review"Spectacular." -- The New Yorker
"Hoffmann 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." -- David Ulin - Chicago Tribune
"Hoffmann’s subject is the miracle of this most ordinary thing, and his prose is its revelation and praise." -- Jenny Hendrix - Forward
"Hoffmann’s meandering is intensely personal, yet his hope that the cataloguing of thoughts and feelings will lead to some kind of larger understanding beyond the self is entirely universal." -- Publishers Weekly
"Hoffmann writes in a language of miracles." -- American Book Review
"Hoffmann's is an exile literature in exile from itself: self-consciously historicized, yet with none of its homage presented obviously. It's a miracle of Peter Cole's sinuous, sensitive English translation of
Moods that Hoffmann seems even more 'himself': a magus, a sphinx, the Kohen of the koan, the Grand Rabbi of Kyoto–a genius." -- Joshua Cohen
"Reading
Moods is not unlike the experience of reading the fictions of Jorge Luis Borges, as it compels an immediate reassessment upon conclusion, and rewards an immediate rereading." -- Full Stop
