Katschen
Subtitle: & The Book of Joseph
By: Yoel Hoffmann.
Contributors: Kriss, David.; Treister, Alan.; Levenston, Edward A.; Hoffmann, Yoel.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Jews -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction.; Palestine -- Fiction.
Other titles: Katschen ; & The Book of Joseph; Book of Joseph
Description: Katschen & The Book of Joseph makes an American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Intensely moving, the two novellas display the entirely original poetry and hypnotic verve of Hoffmann's atomized language. "The Book of Joseph" tells the tragic story of a widowed Jewish tailor and his son in 1930s Berlin. "Katschen" gives an astounding child's-eye view of a boy orphaned in Palestine.
Notes: Contains Ḳatskhen translated by David Kriss and Sefer Yosef translated by Alan Treister with Eddy Levenston.