Only Yesterday: A Novel (Princeton Classics, 35)

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?

• | Author: S. Y. Agnon
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 696 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691181004
• | ISBN-13: 9780691181004