A Book that Was Lost and Other Stories Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literatre in 1966, S. Y. Agnon is considered the towering genius of modern Hebrew literature for his hard-edged modernism and soft-hued imagery. This broad selection of Agnon's stories introduces the writer's panoramic vision as chronicler of the lost world of Eastern European Jewry and the emerging ... more »society of modern Israel, bringing to life the full gamut of the modern Jewish experience.