by Isaac Bashevis Singer · New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401302589
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«Shosha» is the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer published in hardback, with 298 pages, in Spanish.
The action takes place mainly in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw in the 1930s and follows a young writer linked to Shosha, a childhood love, as the antisemitic threat grows in Poland; an epilogue is set in Israel in the early 1950s. The novel weaves together love, faith and the search for meaning.
The Spanish translation is by Adolfo Martín. Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
For readers of classic fiction and historical fiction interested in Jewish life in interwar Europe.
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).
