"Astonishing .
And here he is now, in his early fifties in a shabby apartment on a gloomy wet.
He has felt longings of all sorts, and the constant desire to pen a new chapter.
He has thought about the purpose of the universe and where the country lost its way.
In his life he has had secret love affairs, good ideas, and written a book of poems that aroused expectations. galvanic and intoxicating." -- The New Yorker Fima lives in Jerusalem, but feels he ought to be somewhere else. . . "Astonishing