{"product_id":"moods-new-directions-paperbook-9780811223829","title":"Moods New Directions Paperbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoel Hoffmann—“Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward)—supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spectacular.\" -- The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"Hoffmann’s subject is the miracle of this most ordinary thing, and his prose is its revelation and praise.\" -- Jenny Hendrix - Forward\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"Hoffmann writes in a language of miracles.\" -- American Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eMoods\u003c\/em\u003e that Hoffmann seems even more 'himself': a magus, a sphinx, the Kohen of the koan, the Grand Rabbi of Kyoto–a genius.\" -- Joshua Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading \u003cem\u003eMoods\u003c\/em\u003e 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","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038391828823,"sku":"9780811223829","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780811223829.jpg?v=1750940172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/moods-new-directions-paperbook-9780811223829","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}