by Isaac Bashevis Singer · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440697738
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In 'Shadows on the Hudson', Isaac Bashevis Singer transports us to New York, where a group of Jewish exiles of Polish origin, who managed to escape Nazism, meet at the home of the prosperous merchant Boris Makaver. Through their lives, Singer explores the losses and experiences caused by the war, as well as the tensions between the old traditions and the new models of conduct in their host country. The novel focuses on characters such as Hertz Dovid Grein, a child prodigy haunted by weariness, and Anna, Boris Makaver's daughter, caught between her obligations and a tempestuous love affair. Singer intertwines the trajectories of mystics, pragmatists, and philosophers, offering a rich reflection on the human condition.
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).
