The late Nobelist's masterpiece takes a candid look into the lives of Holocaust survivors during the late forties. Set in New York City, Shadows on the Hudson, Volume 1, the first in a four volume audio book series, draws us into the intertwined lives of a circles of prosperous Jewish refugees. At the center is Boris Makaver, a pious and wealthy businessman. His greatest trial is his daughter, Anna. Unhappy in her current marriage, she plans to escape with Hertz Grien, a man torn between ascetic yearnings and romantic entanglements. From Makaver's gloomy Upper West Side Apartment to the pastel resorts of Miami-amid family quarrels, zealous religious debates, crooked séances, and a myriad of affairs and marriages-Singer weaves a rich tapestry of American Jewry. Despite the characters' fervent and often ironic attempts to decipher life's enigmas, their questions remain, for the most part, unanswered. This darkest of Singer's tragicomic novels was originally serialized in the Yiddish language publication, Forward, in the fifties. Now, finally, in its first English translation, it is revealed to be one of his major works,

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904-1991) began his writing career as a journalist in Warsaw. Influenced by his brother, also an author, he began to write short sorties and novellas which depicted the essence of his upbringing among East European Jewry. In 1935, by the time of his first novel, Satan in Goray, Singer emigrated to and continued his work in New York City. From Gimpel the Fool (translated in 1953), to The Spinoza of Market Street (1961), and A Friend of Kafka (1970), Singer's stories centered on characteristic themes the tyranny of the passions, the power and fickle inventiveness of obsession, and the destructive potential of emotions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.