by Isaac Bashevis Singer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420431086
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«Cuando Shlemel fue a Varsovia y otros cuentos» is a collection of stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Alfaguara in paperback (115 pages).
The stories in this volume feature Shlemel and other characters, with humour, fantasy and roots in Jewish tradition. Singer argued that children read for pleasure, believe in the incredible and deserve interesting stories, an idea that runs through these tales.
The original work, «When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories», was published in 1968; the illustrations are by Margot Zemach.
Recommended for child and young adult readers who enjoy fantasy stories and Jewish tradition.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
