In this collection of stories Singer takes us through the eyes of a devout young husband, praying passionately on
Yom
Kippur, distraced by thought of his wife and unable to focus until word reaches him that she has run away.
Or the world of Hasidic piety in the form of a person so exotic you barely believe in his existence. Or see the raffish world of the Warsaw
intelligentsia, or the alienated persons
transplated from Warsaw to New York...
It is all here in brilliant Nobel Prize winning fashion by Issac Bashevis Singer. A writer for the Jewish people and the people of the world.