So offers the narrator in one of Jonathan Tel's brilliant and insightful stories. Set in and around Jerusalem, now, in the past, and in the future, this remarkable collection introduces us to a wide range of complex characters: some extraordinary in ...
Freud - dying of cancer - has come to London to escape persecution in Austria, bringing with him his famous couch, his collection of tribal totems and his insights into the English. Cared for by his biographer and doctor, Jones, Freud explores the ci...
Blending elements of the surreal with carefully observed details of life in present-day Beijing, Jonathan Tel’s short stories offer a rich and highly entertaining guide to the city and its many and varied inhabitantsâ€"from a modern-day Monkey King...
“A remarkable and very moving feat of storytelling.” -- Andrew Holgate China is the center of the world, and the center of China is Beijing, and at the center of Beijing is a billionaire financier named Qin. At the opening of this novel-in-stori...
"Five adventures take the reader of this collection on journeys from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, to a cheap apartment in Brooklyn, to Manhattan, to New Mexico, and to Jerusalem. In The Book of Moses,"" a successful sculptor finds himself sh...