Michael Hoffman

• May-1999
• / General Fiction
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The world of the film is Tuscany at the turn of the lastcentury. Necklines are high. Parents are rigid. Social convention dictates the fate of the young. Class distinction is a largepart of everyday life and to be an aristocrat still means somethi...

• Jul-2001
• / General Fiction
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Why did the woman in the restaurant scream? Why is the man falsely charged guilty? The empty cafe fills; reason unravels. In the novella Solitude, the last of eight tales in this volume, Solomon Rose returns home after 22 years to confront a dilemma ...

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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Len Fishman, errant son, aimless wanderer and, perhaps, father of one, is home in claustrophobic Nectar after twenty-five years. Why did he leave? What brought him back? Ostensibly, his father, the amateur philosopher and, perhaps, closet philanderer...

• Jan-2005
• / General Fiction
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Michael Hoffman's characters are, willy-nilly, participants in plots that don't add up. Some emerge stronger; others, shadows of their former selves. The six stories and one novel that make up this collection are set, wholly or primarily, in Japan, l...

• Jul-2006
• / General Fiction
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The four stories of Part I vary in setting from Shinobazu Pond to 19th-century Germany, where Dostoevsky toils in despairing, poverty-stricken exile on Crime and Punishment. The "Nectar Fragments" of Part II are linked short stories set in the fictio...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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"Don't be alarmed! I'm harmless. A harmless crank, and very, very old. Older than I look. You have nothing to fear from me." -- Mort Birnbaum
Seventy-three when the novel opens, 88 when it closes. Mort Birmbaum seems destined to live forever. As ...

• Apr-2010
• / Fantasy
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• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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The six stories that make up "Little Pieces" are all set in Japan, land of Zen austerity, manga excess, and much in between. In "First Snow," a joyous chance reunion of a babysitter and her one-time charge unexpectedly spirals into confession and res...

• Jun-2012
• / Thriller
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In the Antebellum South, when a family was about to lose a child to yellow fever or small pox, a photograph of the dying child would be commissioned. A desperate and frightening memento, it was called a remembrance photo.Three days ago, ten-year-old ...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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From the (mock) introduction by the (fictitious) translator: "'The Naked Ear' is an unpolished, apparently unfinished piece of writing by an author about whom nothing is known, not even his name. The manuscript that chanced to come into my possession...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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“Listen, Granule, about what daddy said. Is it true?” “Mummy said he was joking.” “I think it’s true.” “Really?” “I think so.” “D’you mean mummy’s a liar?” Mandolyn was thoughtful. Granule’s eyes were fixed on her face...

• Oct-2016
• / Fantasy
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Brave Tsavo, the first Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, never dies. An African nature god blessed him with multiple lives, and he returns again and again as a boon to the people he loves. Follow Tsavo's heroic journey from the Dark Continent to the 9/11 disa...

• Feb-2019
• / Fantasy
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Brave Tsavo, the first Rhodesian Ridgeback hound,  never really dies. The African nature god Shango  blesses him with multiple lives, and he travels through  time and space as a boon to the people he loves. Follow his heroic journey fr...

• Feb-2023
• / Fantasy
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"Is Arimasen a nation, then?""As to what Arimasen is and is not... oh, Ephraim, did you but know what a subject you... unwittingly, in all innocence... oh, children, how I love your bright, shining faces, your bright, shining eyes! Is Arimasen a nati...