Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

2021-01-08 17:41:22

"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer''s masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its cente... Read more

"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer''s masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its center is Boris Makaver, a pious, wealthy businessman whose greatest trial is his unstable daughter, Anna. A chain of events disrupts the lives of the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present, as Singer explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

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Book Details

File size8.28 X 5.43 X 1.49 in
Print pages560
PublisherFarrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication date April 29, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780374531225
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Nov 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American writer who wrote exclusively in Yiddish. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. The Polish form...

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