To This Day

To This Day, Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon's last novel (first published in Hebrew in 1952) is also his last to be translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished and haunting work. On the surface it is a 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. On a deeper level it is a profound commentary on exile, Zionism, divine providence, human egoism, and other typically Agnon concerns. A truly satisfying novel to complete the Agnon canon.

• Author
• S.Y. Agnon, Hillel Halkin

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 177

• Publisher
• Toby Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781592642144

• Genres
• fiction, israel, literature

• Release date
• 2008