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Yoel Hoffmann's novel The Christ of Fish, revolving around its heroine Aunt Magda, offers a heart-stopping view into the soul of things. Hoffmann makes a beautiful, epiphanic mosaic out of 233 pieces of Aunt Magda's life in Tel Aviv. Originally from Vienna, still speaking German after decades in Israel, and a widow, Aunt Magda has "divided her life into two periods: 'When my husband was alive' and 'now.'" "Now, " ever elusive and ever inclusiv...

The Christ of Fish is a gorgeous novel conjured out of a mosaic of 233 pieces of Aunt Magda's life in Tel Aviv. Originally from Vienna, Hoffmann's heroine is a widow who still speaks German after decades in Israel: we see many views of Aunt Magdaher childhood, her marriage, her nephew, her best friend Frau Stier, Wildegans' poetry, apple strudel, visions and dreams, two stolen handbags, a favorite cafe, and a gentleman admirer.

Devastated by the loss of his wife, Bernhard disconsolately walks thestreets of Jerusalem, considering Gandhi, analysis, the beauty of hiswife Paula's neck, his Arab neighbors, Kokoschka, the Messiah, and theinner life of his friend Gustav the plumber. As his hero tries to cometo terms with his grief and the disasters of WWII, Hoffmann shows theslow remaking of an inner world.