by Henry Roth · Noonday Pr · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780374522926
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«Call It Sleep» is Henry Roth's bildungsroman, published by Noonday Press in paperback (448 pages, in English).
The story follows David Schearl, a Jewish boy growing up in New York's Lower East Side at the beginning of the twentieth century, son of immigrants. Poverty, family tensions, and the transition from childhood to adolescence structure the narrative, which explores identity, assimilation, religion, and the search for belonging.
Originally published in 1934, this 1992 edition is a reprint with an introduction by Alfred Kazin and an afterword by Hana Wirth-Nesher.
For readers of classic literature, including a university audience, interested in narratives about immigration and Jewish life in New York.
Henry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.
