Shosha
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140053905 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | Yiddish |
DESCRIPTION:
All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.. Cover worn, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K
One of the best books I've ever read (and I've read a lot of books) Marilyn M Mendoza I'm new to Singer's work and I'm reading everything he wrote after being given a book of his short stories. I should say the subject interests me because my grandfather was born in Poland. I loved everything about this book. I read this was also Singers favorite of his books which says a lot since he wrote so many. Yiddish as a language as all languages has it's specialness. Having been brought up by a Jewish mother, the language even translated into English brought me back to the words, the people and the world that the Polish Jews brought back to the USA. The way they drink hot tea with the sugar cube between the cup, the marri. Powerful and tragic I had read almost all of Singer but never this one. In his many chronicles of the Jews of Old Poland, Singer has brought all their pungent energies to life - the dedication to Torah study and observance, along with superstition, magic, demons, angels, food, love, sex, marital infidelity, even a fascination with communism. But he has mostly stayed away from the reality which ended that rich world; the Holocaust. Shosha is different. For the first time Singer wraps his narrative around the certainty that Hitler will invade Poland and destroy these people. Their various reactions - fatalism, Messianism, denial - are realistic and te. "As relevant today as it was a quarter century ago!" according to Nettie Scott. In Shosha Singer reminds us to focus on the journey as human beings rather than on any specific destination. Shosha, as a love story, asks us to look at what it means to be a living, thinking, feeling being even as the world falls inexorably into a chaos where definitions of normalcy no longer make sense. Even as Hitler, the Nazis, the Communists and, indeed, much of an uncaring western world threatened the continued existence of European Jews our cast of characters persisted in their exploration of the nature of God and man. While enmeshed in their rituals of relationship and love, they seek to make sense of the perils of day to