| To This Day Contributor(s): Agnon, Sy (Author), Agnon, Shmuel Yosef (Author), Halkin, Hillel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1592642608 ISBN-13: 9781592642601 Publisher: Toby Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2009 Annotation: To This Day is Nobel prizewinner SY Agnon's last novel to be translated into English. On the surface it is a comically entertaining tale of a young writer who wanders from rented room to rented room in a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. On a deeper level it is a profound commentary on exile, Zionism, divine providence, human egoism, and other typiclly Agnonian concerns. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Jewish |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009464549 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.50 lbs) 177 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This novel presents the comically entertaining tale of a young writer - a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin - who wanders from rented room to rented room in a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. |