ARGONAUT BOOKS

Mendel Singer is an ordinary God-fearing Jew who lives through great oppression in both Tsarist Russia and the unforgiving streets of New York. Like Job in the Old Testament he needs a miracle after falling ill, losing his family and suffering. Reviews Extraordinary... A powerful work by a titan of early 20th-century literatureHerald - Alistair Mabbott[A] tender fable.... Dorothy Thompson's translation is enthrallingIndependent - Max LuiOne of the great European novelists of the centurySunday TimesRoth... can pack more into a few pages than lesser writers can do in a few...Read More