Only Yesterday: A Novel

Author

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Original Work

Only Yesterday

Translator

Barbara Harshav

Foreword / Afterword

Adam Kirsch, Benjamin Harshav

Language

English

Year

2018

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Country

United States

Pages

688

ISBN

978-0691181004

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Tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya -- the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reckon of Israel's founding society. This epic 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?— Google Books