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The Independent - London | July 25, 1999| | Copyright

Shadows on the Hudson

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

trs Joseph Sherman

Penguin pounds 7.99

This big, brooding novel was first published in serial form in a Yiddish newspaper in the 1950s and appeared in English only last year, to a wildly mixed reception: some critics reckoning it Singer's masterpiece, others repelled by what they deemed caricatures of blacks and gentiles. It is set among Jewish immigrants in New York in the 1940s, but the spirit is less Philip Roth than Evelyn Waugh - not Waugh the satirist, but Waugh the obituarist of Catholic England. Singer tests the place of the practising Jew ...

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