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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 20/10/1994
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ISBN: 9780099933601
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
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Weight: 244g
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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.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 20/10/1994
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ISBN: 9780099933601
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
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Weight: 244g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz"
Scotsman
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"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"
Sunday Telegraph
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"This might turn out to be the first entry into Israel's "post-war" literary canon"
Independent
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"A warm, enhancing experience"
Spectator
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"A thinking woman's Billy Liar"
Observer
