Résultats pour "isaac bashevis singer" dans Fiction historique

In this mystical short story, the author recalls frequenting a Broadway cafeteria where he would meet other Polish and Russian immigrants. In the fifties, a woman named Esther became part of their group. Although she had been in a Russian prison camp and now had taken a menial job to support her cripple father, she was cheerful and outgoing. She and the author became good friends, but each time he saw her, she looked more disenchanted; her father died, she was often ill, and she worried about her sanity.

Singer's famous and never-before-recorded novel about a passionate, forbidden love affair between Jew and Gentile in 17th century Poland.

Corre el año 1911 cuando Keyle, una prostituta judía, conoce al amor de su vida, Yarme, ex convicto. La joven pareja sueña con escapar de la miseria del gueto de Varsovia, donde viven bajo la constante amenaza de los pogromos, así que cuando Max, un viejo conocido, les ofrece participar en sus lucrativos negocios en Sudamérica, no lo dudan ni un momento. Pero Max también se siente atraído por Yarme, y surge un funesto triángulo amoroso que atormentará a Keyle tanto en las oscuras calles del gueto como en las avenidas de una gran ciudad estadounidense.

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.