Yoel Hoffmann

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1998
  • Latest Book:
    June 2015
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Book List in Order: 7 titles

  • Katschen and the Book of Joseph

    "These two quietly stunning novellas mark the American debut of a writer of international importance."―Publishers Weekly

    In kaleidoscopic fragments, Hoffmann refracts Jewish popular lore and folk wisdom through a postmodernist prism, brighte...

  • The Christ of Fish

    Yoel Hoffmann's novel The Christ of Fish, revolving around its heroine Aunt Magda, offers a heart-stopping view into the soul of things. Hoffmann makes a beautiful, epiphanic mosaic out of 233 pieces of Aunt Magda's life in Tel Aviv. Originally from ...

  • The Heart is Katmandu

    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 beau...

  • The Shunra and the Schmetterling

    Shunra is Aramaic for cat. Schmetterling is German for butterfly. In Yoel Hoffmann's new book, these and numerous other creatures, cultures, and languages meet in a magical shimmering hymn to childhood. Hoffmann traces his hero's developing conscious...

  • Bernhard

    Set in 1940's Palestine, Bernhard concerns a German-Jewish widower.

    Devastated by the loss of his wife, Bernhard disconsolately walks the streets of Jerusalem, considering Gandhi, analysis, the beauty of his wife Paula's neck, his Arab neighbo...

  • Curriculum Vitae

    “The most interesting and experimental novelist in Israel.”―Review Of Contemporary Fiction

    Yoel Hoffmann’s Curriculum Vitae is the remarkable summation of the writer’s life: his escape from the Holocaust; his arrival in Palestine; ti...

  • Moods

    Yoel Hoffmann -- “Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward) -- supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinitePart novel and part memoir, Yoel Hoffmann’s Moods is flooded with feelings, evoked by his fam...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yoel Hoffmann has published 7 books.

Yoel Hoffmann does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Moods, was published in June 2015.

The first book by Yoel Hoffmann, Katschen and the Book of Joseph, was published in May 1998.

No. Yoel Hoffmann does not write books in series.
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