Sensual details of everyday life are magnified and distorted in Yoel Hoffmann’s uncommon romance, The Heart Is Katmandu…Less a novel than a loosely woven series of impressionistic prose poems, this will enchant and baffle discriminating readers.
The Heart Is Katmandu tells a tale of new love—of paradise gained. Set in today’s Haifa and presented in 237 dream-like small chapters, it is a book in which shyness and stumbling tenderness emerge triumphant. Poet Peter Cole has made a beautiful translation, capturing Hoffmann’s intense and unfathomably original style. A starred Kirkus Review acclaimed the novel “Beautiful, humane, priceless.”
Sensual details of everyday life are magnified and distorted in Yoel Hoffmann’s uncommon romance, The Heart Is Katmandu…Less a novel than a loosely woven series of impressionistic prose poems, this will enchant and baffle discriminating readers.