Description
The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole community pulsated with life and vitality. The affairs of the patriarchal Meshulam Moskat and the unworldly Asa Heshel Bannet provide the center of the book, but its real focus is the civilization that was destroyed forever in the gas chambers of the Second World War.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/03/2007
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.86w x 1.08d
ISBN13: 9780374530648
ISBN10: 0374530645
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | World Literature | Poland
About the Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, and children's books. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.