A Book that Was Lost: and Other Stories
by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
published
May 21st 1996
by Schocken
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binding
Paperback, 448 pages
isbn
0805210660
(isbn13: 9780805210668)
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These stories, by a Nobel Prize winner, "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."
At first I expected to read just a few of the stories, but as I finished one, I wanted to read another. So I wound up reading them all and enjoying the way Agnon weaves stories, often with a subtle tongue-in-cheek, dry sense of hu...more
At first I expected to read just a few of the stories, but as I finished one, I wanted to read another. So I wound up reading them all and enjoying the way Agnon weaves stories, often with a subtle tongue-in-cheek, dry sense of hu...more
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