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The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.

»'Zufall' ist kein koscheres Wort.« - Joseph Shapiro lebt mit seiner Frau Celia als wohlhabender Geschäftsmann in New York. Angestachelt von seinem Umfeld, lässt er sich zu erotischen Abenteuern verleiten und hat schließlich eine Geliebte, die ihm mit ihrer Tochter das Geld aus der Tasche zieht. Irgendwann beginnt er zu zweifeln, sein Leben erscheint ihm zunehmend geistlos und leer. Auf der Suche nach dem rechten Weg verlässt er die Frauen und wandert nach Israel aus, wo er als »Büßer« ein neues Leben beginnen will. Doch schon zu Beginn der Reise zeigt sich,...

A fictional exploration of primitive history, Singer's novel portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Part parable of modern civilization, part fascinating historical novel, it reaffrims the author's reputation as a master storyteller.

"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its center is Boris Makaver, a pious, wealthy businessman whose greatest trial is his unstable daughter, Anna. A chain of events disrupts the lives of the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present, as Singer explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love in the aftermath of the...

Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer's childhood self and of the world, now gone, that formed him.