Shosha: A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer



My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The main characters are the playwright Tsutsie, a Jewish guy who had decided to be quite different from his conventional Jewish family, and Shosha, his best friend who is a midget Jewish youngster. Shosha is romantically the title of the book as the cover of everything for him, some sort of a co-author of his own life together with Isaac Bashevis Singer. Shosha is like a short name to Shoshana, a female name that is lasting since such biblical times, stands for both Jewish and Christian womankind.

that's a romantic novel where the love is also a strong protagonist while the war coming, an antagonist. The love had brought the enlightment over each one of the characters, the plot turns around artistic or intellectual people. May the art be the one to give the last breathe before the war! The art has always an intrinsec reason to exist.

Shosha's friend had earned this Yiddish nickname Tsutsie from his intellectual chaps. A tireless writer pushed to become a playwright as well. One of Tsutsie's most impressive work is the serie printed weekly on the newspaper about known fake Messiahs from the last century as the case of Sh. Tsvi.

Behind the love affection, starvation and epidemic disease ghosts were dancing around the live Polish Jewish people, who by the other hand, were either feeling so much alive. Everything is vanishing behind the white winter, the snow covers the tiniest bush and tall trees as well. The cold streams had congealed the river water and entered also through the human hearts.

Shosha is a well-written book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer, a Nobel prize winner and it's a worthy reading.



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