by Isaac Bashevis Singer · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483065280
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«La casa de Jampol» is the historical novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Debate Editorial in hardback, with 512 pages, in Spanish.
The narrative follows Calman Jacoby, a Jewish merchant, and his family in the town of Jampol, against the backdrop of the crushing of the Polish rebellion of 1863. Through weddings, alliances, births, exiles and deaths, the plot charts the family's rise and reflects the tensions of Polish society during the second half of the 19th century.
The original title, in Yiddish, is «דער הויף»; the work was originally published in 1967 and the translation was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1968.
For readers of historical novels and family sagas, with an interest in Jewish and Polish literature; the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
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).
