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The way to the cats
- Title
- The way to the cats / Yehoshua Kenaz ; translated by Dalya Bilu.
- Author
- Ḳenaz, Yehoshuʻa.
- Publication
- South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PJ5054.K36 B313 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 325 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Yolanda Moscowitz is the heroine of this remarkable novel - a seventy-six year old retired school teacher who is suddenly crippled by a fall and finds herself recuperating in a Tel Aviv home for the aged. There she is surrounded by a rich carnival of characters: the uncaring head nurse ("Satana"), a harsh disciplinarian who is Yolanda's nemesis; Leon, the oily orderly who flirts with Yolanda, hints at the possibility of a sexual liaison, and connives to get her money; Adela, the masseuse who is more interested in Yolanda's property than her body; innocent Allegra, who performs menial tasks for Yolanda and whose girlish body is diseased from within; Kagan, the Russian-born, alcoholic artist whose legs have been crushed by a bus and who romances Yolanda with French poetry; and Wolfe, the religious widower who, through rotting teeth, begs Yolanda to marry him so that he may rid himself of the prurient erotic fantasies which torment him.
- Uniform Title
- Ba-derekh el ha-ḥatulim. English
- Alternative Title
- Ba-derekh el ha-ḥatulim.
- ISBN
- 1883642205 :
- LCCN
- 93049577
- OCLC
- 29598762
- ocm29598762
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries