{"product_id":"curriculum-vitae-yoel-hoffmann-9780811218320","title":"Curriculum Vitae","description":"Yoel Hoffmann's \u003cem\u003eCurriculum Vitae\u003c\/em\u003e is the remarkable summation of the writer's life: his escape from the Holocaust; his arrival in Palestine; time in an orphanage; youth; two marriages; fatherhood; his studies of Japanese Buddhism; his travels; his ever-busy inner life. \u003cem\u003eCurriculum Vitae\u003c\/em\u003e begins quietly but becomes more and more hypnotic and amazing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Funny, gorgeous and utterly unique, \u003cem\u003eCurriculum Vitae\u003c\/em\u003e is Yoel Hoffmann's triumphant look backward and inward: How stupid we are to let the world toss us from one place to another, while we need to speak to dentists and poets like warehouse clerks who keep an account of old equipment (bags here and belts there) and pile it up on the floor. What do we remember? The lake at Biwa and the houses across it. The cherry blossoms and Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidenak....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hoffmann,\" as the \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e put it, \"is not just a good writer but a great one, with the ability to find, in the moment-to-moment dislocation of daily existence, epiphanies of revelatory force . . . What Hoffmann has achieved is a kind of magic.\" Hoffmann has also been hailed as \"miraculous\" (A. B. Yehoshua), \"spectacular\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e), \"radiant\" (\u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e), and \"stunning\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New Leader\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yoel Hoffmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811218325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811218320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Yoel Hoffmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926341845247,"sku":"9780811218320","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b3d408fb-c3f6-43dd-9a12-fb7c70a29cdf.jpg?v=1681082538","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/curriculum-vitae-yoel-hoffmann-9780811218320","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}