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.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 10/01/1988
Pages: 311
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780374506803
Language: English
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