Shosha

Poland, Warsaw, 1930s. The air is filled with anxious forebodings of a global catastrophe. Aaron Greidinger - a young writer, the son of a rabbi, leading a bohemian lifestyle. Confused in romantic entanglements and creative failures, he tries to write a mystical play and, along with other Jews in Warsaw, awaits the inevitable end of the world. One spring day, while walking through the impoverished Jewish neighborhoods of his childhood, he decides to visit the home where his first love lived, whom he had not seen for twenty years. It turns out that Shosha has been waiting for him all these years and, as if by magic, has retained the former appearance of a simple-hearted girl…
The novel 'Shosha' is the most famous work of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991), an amazing story of love and a vivid testimony to life in pre-war Warsaw, erased from the face of the earth by the Nazis. After the publication of the English version of the novel in 1978, I.B. Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize for 'the emotional art of storytelling.' Initially, the text was published in Yiddish under the title 'Expeditions of the Soul,' but during the translation into English, it was significantly altered and reworked by the author, who insisted that translations into other languages should be made based on the English version. In this edition, the novel 'Shosha' is presented in the classic translation from English by Nina Brumberg.