- Fiction, Holocaust survivors, Jewish men, Jews
Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives; Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.
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Prestige, classical in form, bleak and overwhelming.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Limbus Press, Munchen: Hanser.
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Russian, yid, German
- ISBN
- 9780449213070
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“HERMAN BRODER turned over and opened one eye.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer
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