The Slave

isaac bashevis singer cecil hemley

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.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionclassicsjewishnobel prizepolandliteraturenovelshistoricalpolish literature

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1962

Literary awards

national jewish book award,

Places

poland,

This edition

Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Published: October 1, 1988 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374506803
ASIN: 0374506809
Language: English

About the author

isaac bashevis singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, 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.
His memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw", won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, while his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.