Fee Ma

Author: Amos Oz, translated by Hong Feng et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-08-09
Features: At a young age, Fermi was a man with a special charm. During his continuous escape from home, he experienced many romantic affairs and was also a promising poet. Now, his wife has long left him, pursuing scientific research in the United States and marrying another man. In his fifties, he lives alone and has fallen into the role of a receptionist at a gynecological clinic in Jerusalem. Unable to do anything, he reads newspapers one after another. He engages in debates and conversations with his academically successful friends, his eighty-year-old father who is prosperous in business, taxi drivers, women who come to the clinic for treatment, even with the crickets in the kitchen, and with the cabinet ministers he imagines and Yozer who will live in Jerusalem a hundred years later, seeking spiritual solace in the homeland of language. He expresses his love for women in a special way. This book condenses Fermi's life story into a week, through the recording of his words and actions, the currently most famous writer in the Israeli literary world, Amos Oz, has created a vivid anti-hero figure, expressing his wise reflections on a series of themes such as politics, morality, family, sexuality, sin, suffering, death, peace, and love.