1. [n]  the person to whom you are engaged
2. [adj]  pledged to be married; "the engaged couple"

Betrothed
A marine biologist named Jacob Rechnitz is living in Palestine in the early days of Zionism at the beginning of the 20th century (where Agnon himself relocated in 1908). Jacob is a man who likes women but is too devoted to his work to care about finding true love. When his childhood sweetheart comes to visit, she becomes part of a strange, magical competition among the women who want Jacob. This fable-like love story by the Nobel Prize-winning writer is one of his strangest and most appealing books.

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