A Guest for the Night

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1938

Chapter One. I Came to My Home Town

On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got out and went their way, while Gentile townsfolk, men and women, made their way in. The wheels rolled sluggishly between hills and mountains, valleys…

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