A 93-year old European Doktor kidnaps two hopeless cases from their hospitals and attempts to cure them by convincing them that they are long-lost lovers
Seymour Simckes is an award-winning playwright, novelist, educator, Hebrew-English translator, and psychotherapist. He has developed approaches to the use of creative writing in areas including prison therapy and cross-cultural communication between students in the Middle East.
His awards include two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships and the National Jewish Book Award.
“An original feat of the imagination. It purifies through love for the human being.” —Bernard Malamud
“Unique, wild, funny. It still haunts me. —New York Times
“A timeless profundity about it. The resonances are mythic. Extraordinarily strange, enlivened by all kinds of stylistic intrusions and an almost hysterical inventiveness.” —The Village Voice
