A Room

By Youval Shimoni

A monumental, subversive classic of twentieth-century literature jailed upon its publication as one of the finest novels ever written in Hebrew, A Room is in the league of Gravity's Rainbow or The Recognitions:

A bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris breaks into a morgue to recreate Mantegna's Lamentation of Christ. A scripture (with commentary ) tells of a mythical nation uniting to construct a monument to their deity, then falling into chaos when no one can agree on its precise form or dimensions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628971339
• ISBN13: 9781628971330
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher