Shadows on the Hudson / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Sherman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Yiddish Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus Giroux ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], 2008.Description: 548 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0374531226 (pbk.)
- 9780374531225 (pbk.)
- Shoòtns baym Hodson. English
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Main Library | Fiction | Singer, Isaac Bashevis | Available | 33111005543588 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its center is Boris Makaver, a pious, wealthy businessman whose greatest trial is his unstable daughter, Anna. A chain of events disrupts the lives of the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present, as Singer explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
This translation originally published: 1998.
A novel of post-World War II Jewish refugees in New York. It is centered on the Makavers, a prosperous family torn by scandal. Anna, their daughter, has left her husband and taken up with a married man.