by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401427626
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«El esclavo» is the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
In seventeenth-century Poland, Jacob, a Jew sold as a slave to a gentile family, struggles to preserve his faith and identity in a hostile environment. The decisions he must make confront him with dilemmas of loyalty and humanity. The novel addresses freedom, oppression, love, and redemption.
The novel belongs to the Biblioteca de autor collection by Plaza & Janés and corresponds to its 1992 edition.
For readers of literary fiction seeking a novel with historical background and moral conflicts.
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).
