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The Slave

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master''s daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can''t live without... Read more

Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master''s daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can''t live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.72 in
Print pages320
PublisherFarrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication date October 1, 1988
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780374506803
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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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