by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Bruguera, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402080875
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«Un día de placer» is the collection of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer published by Bruguera in hardback (263 pages, in Spanish).
The stories in this volume recreate the atmosphere of the Jewish community of Warsaw where the author spent his childhood. Through everyday life, faith and tradition, Singer portrays the challenges and joys of characters marked by the twentieth century, with an intimate and deeply human gaze.
Volume 30 of Bruguera's Club Joven collection. Translation by Andrés Bosch.
For readers interested in Yiddish literature and stories with a historical and cultural setting.
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).
