by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401360022
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«El esclavo» is the epic novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (319 pages, in Spanish).
Poland, 17th century. After the massacre of Jewish communities by the Cossacks, Jacob, a pious Jew, is sold as a slave in a mountain village. He falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter, despite the laws forbidding it. His captivity is a struggle between primitivism and his faith, revealing to him a higher freedom and a new understanding of holiness.
Originally published as Der knekht in 1962, this 1978 Spanish edition is a translation by Ana M.ª de la Fuente.
For readers of historical fiction and Jewish literature; also of interest to those following the work 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).
