Imprint: Vintage
Published: 20/10/1994
ISBN: 9780099933601
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 244g
RRP: £9.99
Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends his hours fantasising about solving the nation's problems and pursuing women with equivocal success.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 20/10/1994
ISBN: 9780099933601
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 244g
RRP: £9.99
There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz
The book eavesdrops on several days in the life of this Jewish Walter Mitty, a Dostoevskian holy fool minus the faith, with the penchant for casuistic sophistry of Bellow's Herzog
This might turn out to be the first entry into Israel's "post-war" literary canon
A warm, enhancing experience
A thinking woman's Billy Liar