DescriptionThe late Nobelist's masterpiece takes a candid look into the lives of Holocaust survivors during the late '40s. At the center of a circle of prosperous Jewish refugees now living in New York City is Boris Makaver, a pious and wealthy businessman. His greatest trial is his daughter, Anna, who plans to leave her unhappy marriage for another man. This tragicomic novel leads the listener from Makaver's gloomy Upper West Side apartment to Miami's art-deco landscape. In between the family quarrels, zealous debates, crooked seances, and a myriad of affairs and marriages that make up the reality of these Jewish-Americans unfold. This is the first English translation of Singer's Shadows on the Hudson series, which originally appeared in the Yiddish language publication, Forward .
DescriptionIn 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, goes to occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman called Peter Gregory, who has gone missing…
