by Isaac Bashevis Singer · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422612216
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«Shosha» is the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (262 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Warsaw in the 1930s, the novel follows Aaron Greidinger, a young Jewish writer torn between his literary vocation and his bond with Shosha, a childhood friend, as antisemitism spreads and war approaches. Love, faith, identity and memory run through a story marked by threat.
Isaac Bashevis Singer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. Shosha, originally written in Yiddish, appears in this Spanish edition with a translation by Adolfo Martín.
Intended for readers of historical fiction and Jewish literature interested in interwar Europe and the work of 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).
