by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421150
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«Shosha» is the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (284 pages, in Spanish).
In the Jewish Warsaw of the 1930s, Aaron Greidinger, a young Yiddish writer, is reunited with Shosha, his childhood love, while the community awaits the coming war. Between his literary vocation and the Nazi threat, the novel explores love, faith, and Jewish identity.
First edition in 1982. Spanish translation of the English version of a work originally in Yiddish, published in the El Ave Fénix collection no. 15.
Will appeal to readers of historical fiction and Jewish literature, as well as followers of Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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).
