by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140037920
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«The Slave» is the historical novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Penguin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Jacob is a Jewish scholar who, after the Chmielnicki massacres in seventeenth-century Poland, ends up sold as a slave. In his captivity he meets Wanda, a non-Jewish woman, and a forbidden love is born that sets their communities against each other. Singer portrays Jewish life in Poland and explores faith, loneliness, sacrifice, and redemption.
The novel was originally published in 1962 and received the National Jewish Book Award in 1963; this English edition features a translation by Cecil Hemley.
For readers of historical fiction and Jewish literature, with a drama of forbidden love and reflection on faith in seventeenth-century Poland.
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).
