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The characters in ‘God’s Gym’ strive to make order out of life’s chaos
By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 AM Oct 6, 2009

Until I read Leon de Winter’s God’s Gym, a pulpy yet literary Dutch thriller just published in English, I had never heard of its author. It is only the second of de Winter’s books to be translated here—like the first, Hoffman’s Hunger, it is published by Toby Press, which does invaluable work translating Jewish writers ...