New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by this noted Israeli author which analyzes the opening sections of novels and short stories by such writers as Agnon, Gogol, Kafka, Chekhov, Garcia Marquez, and Raymond Carver. Translated from the Hebrew by Maggie Bar-Tura. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-151002975.