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A room / by Youval Shimoni ; translated by Michael Sharp.
- Title
- A room / by Youval Shimoni ; translated by Michael Sharp.
- Author
- Shimoni, Youval, 1955-
- Publication
- Victoria, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PJ5054.S453723 H413 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sharp, Michael
- Description
- 597 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Hebrew literature series
- Uniform Title
- Ḥeder. English
- Hebrew literature series
- Alternative Title
- Ḥeder.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Israeli literature – Translations into English.
- Fiction
- Note
- Translated from Hebrew.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Hebrew.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The lamp -- The drawer -- The throne.
- ISBN
- 9781628971330
- 1628971339
- LCCN
- ^^2015040713
- OCLC
- 933218975
- SCSB-10702045
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library