The Game

By Izzy Abrahami

Book Overview

This satiric fable about a fad that captures the nation begins one evening in a housing development, when an idle man happens to notice that the hundreds of windows he can see from his balcony form patterns of light and darkness. To escape boredom he creates a game, investing the patterns with meaning. Soon he and his wife become happily engrossed in his invention. They refine the game by observing what's going on inside the apartments behind the windows and creating a scoring system based on what they see.

From this simple beginning, Izzy Abrahami spins off an extraordinarily funny and wise novel, caricaturing modern society. His two voyeurs are discovered by their neighbors, who panic over the fact that they're being watched . . . until they themselves discover what it is that the voyeurs are doing. Then they too become fascinated with the game; their fascination is echoed by the rest of the country, and the game spreads like wildfire.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578964317
• ISBN13: 9780578964317
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Tough Poets Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A treasure

This book will grab you from the first paragraph and never leave you. I read it 20 years ago and still remember it. An excellent translation into Spanish ("El Juego de las Ventanas") by Marta Isabel Guastavino was published by EMECE Editores in Argentina in 1973. Highly recommended!

Shame it's out of print!

I read this book about 15 years ago. The artist Taly Johnson's father wrote it.The Game is about some people who live in facing high-rise apartments. Casual voyeurism becomes a structured game, with different points given for things witnessed in people's windows.Quite a competition erupts between the two buildings.It's one of those stories that's stayed with me over the years and, tonight, I decided to try to find the book.Nice to see it's available used, anyway!