S. Y. Agnon, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator , trans. from the hebrew by Hillel Halkin. Toby $24.95 (177p) ISBN 978-1-59264-214-4
First published in 1952, this subtly woven, comic tale by Nobel Prize–winner Agnon is set in Germany during World War I. A young scholar writing a book on the history of clothing has strayed from his Austrian, Orthodox Jewish roots, ending up...
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S. Y. Agnon, Author, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Author, Anne G. Hoffman, Editor Schocken Books Inc $27.5 (436p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4120-4
A solid introduction to a writer who has justly been compared to Faulkner and Joyce, this collection of 25 stories by Nobel Prize-winning Israeli novelist Agnon (1888-1970) presents a Jewish modernist who transformed traditional themes and sources...
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S. Y. Agnon, Author, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Author, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Author Schocken Books Inc $24.95 (585p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4043-6
Agnon's massive, not-quite-finished novel about a German-Jewish scholar's adultery, set in British-occupied Jerusalem in the late 1930s, is a yeasty mix of realism and allegory. In this, his last major work, the Israeli Nobel laureate portrays...
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