The Shunra and the Schmetterling Paperback / softback
by Peter Cole, Yoel Hoffmann
Paperback / softback
Description
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 consciousness of the ways-and-wonders of the world as though he were peering through a tremendous kaleidoscope: all that was perceived, all that is remembered, is rendered in fluid fragments of color and light.
With remarkable delicacy and sweep, Hoffmann captures childhood from the amazed inside out, and without the backward-looking wash of grown-up sentiment.
Instead, the boy's deadpan registration of the human comedy around him is offered up as strangely magical fact.
Beautifully translated by Peter Cole, The Shunra and the Schmetterling is fiction for lovers of poetry and poetry for lovers of fiction--a small marvel of a book, and one of the author's finest to date.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:12/05/2004
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- ISBN:9780811215671
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:12/05/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780811215671