| A Room Contributor(s): Shimoni, Youval (Author), Sharp, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1628971339 ISBN-13: 9781628971330 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 892.436 |
| LCCN: 2015040713 |
| Series: Hebrew Literature |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.75 lbs) 656 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |