by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845932083
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«Keyla la rossa» is the novel by writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Adelphi in paperback (280 pages, in Italian).
Keyla awakens an overwhelming passion in three men: Yarme, a seducer just out of prison; Bunem, destined to become a rabbi; and the ambiguous Max. The novel portrays the dark side of Jewish emigration: the trafficking of girls from the shtetls forced into prostitution in South America and the misery of the Warsaw ghetto and of emigrants in New York.
Text in Italian in the Biblioteca Adelphi collection, number 676; translation by Marina Morpurgo and edition by Elisabetta Zevi.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in Jewish culture and stories of emigration.
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).
