Bernhard

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ISBN-10:

0811213897

ISBN-13:

9780811213899

Author(s): Yoel Hoffmann
Edition: First American Edition
Released: Oct 17, 1998
Publisher: New Directions
Format: Hardcover, 172 pages
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Description:

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 neighbors, Kokoschka, the Messiah, and the inner life of his friend Gustav the plumber. As his hero tries to come to terms with his grief and the disasters of WWII, Hoffmann shows the slow remaking of an inner world.











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