Shira
1st American ed.
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Author
Publication
1989 - Schocken Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
146,250 words, Guess
Page Count
585 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2061509M
- ISBN-100805240438
- OCLC Control Number19669844
- OCLC Control Numbershira00agno
- Library of Congress Control Number88043129
and 2 more
- LibraryThing249407
- Goodreads1312414
Classifications
- DDC892.4/35
- LCCPJ5053.A4 S51913 1989
Description
Manfred Herbst, a middle-aged professor at the Hebrew University, is bored. He is bored with his studies, with the petty squabbles of his academic colleagues, and with his endlessly understanding wife, Henrietta. He spends his days - and often his nights - prowling the streets and alleys of Jerusalem searching for Shira, the beguiling nurse he met at a hospital years ago. Against the backdrop of 1930s Jerusalem - a world on the brink of war - Herbst wages his own war against the encroachment of age as he plunges deeper into fantasies sparked by the free-spirited Shira. Shira, the last novel of Hebrew writer and 1966 Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon, was unfinished at the time of his death in 1970. Agnon wrote two very different endings for this novel, both of which are included here, along with an afterword by Robert Alter.
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