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הלב הוא קטמנדו

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פתאום בתיה בוערת כמו הסנה האלהי. אני הסנה [היא אומרת לעצמה] עם הצפורנים ועם הבשר שמתחת לצפורנים ועם השער שעף ברוח ואי אפשר לעצור אותו בסכות ותחתוני המשי שאפשר להשליך לתקרה שקוראים לי וקוראים לי מתוך האוויר חלב ומים ואש ועפר וכל אלבומי התמונות שאמרו לי חיכי ומשהו נכנס בי עד לדפנות הפנימיים קדוש קדוש קדוש קדוש והיא הולכת עד למקומו של יהואחים אצל הזכוכית שפונה לשער הלבנות ואומרת בוא.

238 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

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Yoel Hoffmann

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Yoel Hoffmann (23 June 1937– 25 August 2023) was an Israeli Jewish contemporary author, editor, scholar and translator.

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July 10, 2013
"The colors of Thankgod." hoffman is a hot day that blurs you. hoffman is the kind of yogurt that is smoke. i love the repetition, the address to the sky, how it reminds me of Antwerp by Bolano, the impairment, the pear mint. No one will believe me, but I have lived how love works in this book.
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August 19, 2017
Sometimes when I read a book and come upon a phrase or sentence I like, I'll bend the corner of the page, to return to in the future. If I did that with this book, my whole life would be a bent corner.
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October 20, 2007
Cross genre and experimental books, if written well, have a way of becoming maps of the psyche. Hoffmann does just that in this novel, if you can even call it a novel. It is, more aptly, long form poetic prose, a fluid diffusion of ideas about God, love, intelligence, and awareness curled together in a book whose simple yet startling prose often demands that its reader stop and absorb the full gravity of what was said.
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