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“Astonishing . . . galvanic and intoxicating.” —The New Yorker

Fimalives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought to be somewhere else. In hislife he has had secret love affairs, good ideas, and written a book ofpoems that aroused expectations. He has thought about the purpose of theuniverse and where the country lost its way. He has felt longings ofall sorts, and the constant desire to pen a new chapter. And here he isnow, in his early fifties in a shabby apartment on a gloomy wet morning,engaged in a humiliating struggle to release his shirt from the zipperof his fly. With wit and insight, Amos Oz portrays a man—and ageneration—dreaming noble dreams but doing nothing.

“One of Oz’smost memorable fictional creations . . . Fima is a cross betweenChekhov’s Uncle Vanya and Joyce’s Leopold Bloom.” — Washington Post