| A Book That Was Lost: Thirty-Five Stories Expanded Edition Contributor(s): Agnon, S. Y. (Author), Mintz, Alan (Editor), Golomb Hoffman, Anne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1592642543 ISBN-13: 9781592642540 Publisher: Toby Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 Annotation: Awardedin Literature in 1966, S.Y. Agnon is considered the towering genius of modern Hebrew literature for his hard edged modernisim and soft-hued imagery. With this collection of stories, reissued in paperback and expanded to include II more Agnon classics, the English-speaking audience has at long last, access to the rich and brilliantly multifaceted fictional world of one of the greatest writers of the last century. This broad selection of Agnon's fiction intorduces the full swee of the writer's panoramic vision as chonicaler of the lost world of Eastern European Jewry and the emerging society of modern Israel. New Reader's Preface by Jonathan Rosen. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (1.55 lbs) 588 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These stories span the lifetime of a quintessential wandering Jew - born in Buczacz, Poland, living in Germany, and finally settling in Jerusalem - and they bring to life the full gamut of the modern Jewish experience in fiction. |