Shadows on the Hudson - Isaac Bashevis Singer

This major posthumous novel was first published in Yiddish in serial form in the late 1950s and is appearing in English for the first time. It tells the tragi-comic story of a circle of prosperous Jewish refugees in New York City in the 1940s. Twice-married Anna Makavar, who escaped the Holocaust with her rich but ultra-religious father, runs off with Hertz Grein, a tormented married man who has known her since she was a girl growing up in Warsaw. This shocking incident sets off a series of events which disturb the already angst-ridden circle of people surrounding her father.