- Sapir Prize for Literature 2014 · Winner
The Ruined House
הבית אשר נחרב · ha-Bayit asher nehrav
Ruby Namdar (ראובן נמדר, born 1964)
Translated by Hillel Halkin
English editions
In EnglishThe Ruined House
Harper Perennial · United States · 2018 · Paperback · 528 pages
The Ruined House
Harper · United States · November 2017 · Hardcover · 528 pages
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Andrew Cohen seems to have it all: a chair at a New York university, international renown as a scholar of culture, a sleek apartment above the Hudson, admired essays and a string of lovers he handles with ease. Then, without warning, he begins to see things: dreams and waking visions of the ancient Tabernacle and of priests performing rites in the Jerusalem Temple. The visions split open his polished existence, and he slides into a breakdown that is as much spiritual as mental. Interleaved with his story are passages in the Hebrew of the Mishnah setting out the Yom Kippur sacrifices and incense offering, which mirror and illuminate his unravelling.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 535 pages in the original
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2013 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan
- Author's age
- 49 when first published
- ISBN
9789655526370 (original)
9780062467492 (Harper, United States)
9780062467485 (Harper Perennial, United States)
- More
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