Confessions of a Madman Hebrew Literature Series Is his name the only

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“The most profound novel I have read for years

Confessions of a Madman Hebrew Literature Series Is his name the onlyConfessions of a Madman personalizes the struggle of a civil war by following the fragmentation and irreversible separation of a single family. Written in alternating flashbacks and descriptions of a mans present, Sebbar delivers a modern fable for adults: a tale of familial disorientation, identity, violence, and morality. A young man observes his mother losing her mind while waiting for her murdered husband to return home. Despite his estrangement