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Cover for From Foe to Friend featuring an illustration of a man sitting at an open window with green shutters writing on an piece of paper with, unbeknownst to him, a ghost on the outskirts of the window frame with a brown leaf at his tale and a piece of paper in his hand and a goat below the frame looking up at the ghost. There's a frame around the scene and the background is different shades of yellow. The title on the cover is green like the window's shutters.

From Foe to Friend & Other Stories

By S.Y. Agnon, Shay Charka (Illustrator)

From Foe to Friend & Other Stories. S.Y. Agnon. A graphic novel by Shay Charka. Translated and adapted by Jeffrey Saks. The Toby Press, 2014. Originally published as Shay veAgnon: Sheloshah Sippurim in Hebrew by Schocken Publishing House Ltd., in Tel Aviv, in 2012. ISBN 9781592643950. 48 p. (Ages 12 and up). Graphic novel.

Well-known Israeli cartoonist Shay Charka has brought three of Nobel Prize winner Agnon’s stories – two of them regularly taught to Israeli children though they were also published for adults -- to a new audience. The artwork is engaging, accessible, and studded with little touches referencing Jewish history. “The Fable of the Goat” is particularly poignant. [ayg]

Tags:

Middle Grade

Young Adult

Translations - Hebrew

First Published - Israel