Shosha

By Isaac Bashevis Singer

Subjects: Jewish fiction, Fiction, general, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Middle eastern philology, Fiction,, History, Jews, Authors

Description: *Shosha* is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The original Yiddish version appeared in 1974 in the *Jewish Daily Forward* under the title *Neshome ekspeditsyes (Soul Expeditions).* The main character is aspiring author Aaron Greidinger who lives in the Hasidic quarter of the Jewish neighborhood of Warsaw during the 1930s: "I was an anachronism in every way, but I didn't know it, just as I didn't know that my friendship with Shosha [..] had anything to do with love."