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21 stories: Average rating of 4.29.
Some truly interesting stories in here, based on people known by the author himself. Mostly based in the pre-WWII & pre-Holocaust era in Poland, while few in America, and one in Israel and Buenos Aires each.
Stories of life, people, the world, life's magic, fate, religiousness, couples, love, run-away husbands and wives, Hasids, intelligence, obsessions, salvations, demons, the supernatural, absurdity, personal discoveries, .. et cetera, etc.
Unfailing entertaining stories by the master storyteller, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. Most of the stories here were written and previously published in the newspapers and periodicals in the 1960s. Also, relatively, the stories in here were much better than my previous reading of another of his compilations [b:The Image and Other Stories|224245|The Image and Other Stories|Isaac Bashevis Singer|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1311992723s/224245.jpg|405759].
The works certainly have an awesome writing style. Translations (partly done by the author himself) from the Yiddish seem very good indeed, with usually simple sentences, and very rarely a complex one.
5 and 4-stars to eighteen stories (nine stories each), for some of which I was held in a dilemma what to rate at the moment of reading, while 3-stars to the remaining three.
Most certainly, a much recommended read. :)
Some truly interesting stories in here, based on people known by the author himself. Mostly based in the pre-WWII & pre-Holocaust era in Poland, while few in America, and one in Israel and Buenos Aires each.
Stories of life, people, the world, life's magic, fate, religiousness, couples, love, run-away husbands and wives, Hasids, intelligence, obsessions, salvations, demons, the supernatural, absurdity, personal discoveries, .. et cetera, etc.
Unfailing entertaining stories by the master storyteller, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. Most of the stories here were written and previously published in the newspapers and periodicals in the 1960s. Also, relatively, the stories in here were much better than my previous reading of another of his compilations [b:The Image and Other Stories|224245|The Image and Other Stories|Isaac Bashevis Singer|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1311992723s/224245.jpg|405759].
The works certainly have an awesome writing style. Translations (partly done by the author himself) from the Yiddish seem very good indeed, with usually simple sentences, and very rarely a complex one.
5 and 4-stars to eighteen stories (nine stories each), for some of which I was held in a dilemma what to rate at the moment of reading, while 3-stars to the remaining three.
Most certainly, a much recommended read. :)
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