4 results for "Love"

Enemies, A Love Story

Isaac Bashevis Singer
In Enemies, A Love Story - an ode to the complicated postwar experience of Holocaust survivors - Isaac Bashevis Singer tells the story of Herman Broder, a man lost in his own indecisiveness and dishonesty. Almost before he knows it, Herman 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. But the difficulty of navigating his crowded personal life, as well as the general ambiguous experience of Yiddish New York after WWII, leaves Herman with a sense of perpetually impending doom. Praise: "Isaac Bashevis Singer is both an old‐fashioned storyteller and a modern psychological writer" - The New York Times "The hero of Enemies, A Love Story is a trigamist - a word one doesn't get to use every day. Herman scuttles about New York with buoyant pessimism and fatalistic sweetness, trying to make his untenable life work. In his first novel set in America, Isaac Bashevis Singer works out this bizarre plot with perfect naturalness and aplomb . . . Enemies, A Love Story is a brilliant, unsettling novel." - Newsweek "It is a measure of Singer's strength that he is able to utilize what is essentially a familiar farcical situation - a man married to three wives - to scour the empty room of one human soul pursued by the echoes of real and terrible enemies." - Kirkus Reviews
Goodreads Press 2021-11-30 264 pages

The Power of Light Eight Stories for Hannukah

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Eight tales-one for each night of Hanukkah-demonstrating the inventive storytelling powers of Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. Miracles and visitations abound in the world Singer portrays, a world in which love triumphs over time and tribulation, and faith prevails. Each story is invested with the mystical spirit of Hanukkah. " The Power of Light can enrich readers of all faiths, all ages, with its descriptions of the miraculous power of light over evil. The stories also reveal Singer's genius.''- Publishers Weekly
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp 2024-01-21 110 pages

The Golem

Isaac Bashevis Singer
A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II. From the New York Times: "Isaac Bashevis Singer's retelling of the legend of the golem is magical and compassionate, redolent with the warmth and philosophical wisdom for which this Nobel laureate is celebrated. Economically stated . . . the legend shows the Jews of Prague in an imperiled situation. . . . Endowed with love and humanity in Mr. Singer's hands, the golem legend clearly becomes a story for all ages."
Goodreads Press 2023-08-15 88 pages