Shadows on the Hudson
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer ; translated by Joseph Sherman.
Contributors: Sherman, Joseph.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
Subjects: Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: Set in New York City in the late forties, Shadows on the Hudson presents the inter-twined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish refugees. Boris Makaver is the center of the circle, a pious and wealthy businessman. His greatest trial is his daughter, Anna, unlucky in her choice of husbands. Married first to Yasha Kotik, a lunatic actor, and then to a hapless, unemployed attorney, she plans to escape with Hertz Grein, a man torn between ascetic yearnings and romantic entanglements.

Amid family quarrels and religious debates, marriages of love and convenience are attempted and abandoned, lovers separate, and spouses die or even manage to return from the dead.