by Isaac Bashevis Singer · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422610823
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«El esclavo» is the historical novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (222 pages, in Spanish).
Set in seventeenth-century Poland after the Chmielnicki massacres, it follows Jacob, a Jewish slave and shepherd in a mountain village who falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. After being rescued, he cannot forget her; both flee to a Jewish community where their love defies religious and social norms in an environment of violence.
Translation from English by Ana María de la Fuente. 1979 edition with illustrated dust jacket. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 1963.
For readers of historical fiction and classics of Jewish literature, with a plot of love, faith and identity in a period of persecution.
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).
