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Passions

By Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Passions is a masterly collection of stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, weaving bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives. The tales journey from modern Miami apartments to nineteenth-century Polish villages, exploring bravery in wartime Warsaw and quiet courage in Lisbon. Singer captures humanity’s mundane and mysterious facets with subtlety and compassion, spanning diverse settings and experiences.
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In this masterly collection of stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer once again weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us with subtlety and compassion humanity at its most mundane and mysterious.

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In this masterly collection of stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer once again weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us with subtlety and compassion humanity at its most mundane and mysterious.

From modern apartments in Miami to nineteenth-century Polish villages, from bravery in wartime Warsaw to a different kind of courage in Lisbon, these tales span the world and the range of human life.

Passions illustrates the incredible versatility of its author, as Singer crafts stories that are deeply engaging and profoundly human, offering insights into the complexities of life and the intricacies of the human spirit.

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ISBN: 9780099286455

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2001

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Issac Bashevis Singer was born in Poland in 1904, and emigrated to the United States in 1935, shortly after his first novel, Satan in Goray, had been published in instalments. In 1943 he became a US citizen, but he continued to write almost exclusively in Yiddish, personally supervising the translation of his works into English. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Issac Bashevis Singer died in Florida in 1991.

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