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Item Details
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ONLY YESTERDAY
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| By: |
S. Y. Agnon, Barbara Harshav (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£36.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691009724 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691009728 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 April, 2000 |
| Pages: |
688 |
| Translated from: |
Hebrew |
| Description: |
This novel tells the seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine during the Second Aliya - the period between 1904 and 1914 when many Jewish idealists returned to work the Hebrew soil as in biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. |
| Synopsis: |
Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, Only Yesterday, here appears in its first-ever English translation. Published in 1945, the novel tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine during the Second Aliya - the period between 1904 and 1914 when many jewish idealists returned to work the Hebrew soil as in biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. This monumental novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, What, if anything, controls human existence? |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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