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  The Slave: A Novel (Paperback) By (author) Isaac Bashevis Singer, By (author) C. Hemley

  

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  Short Description for The SlaveFour years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of c...
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  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Published: 01 October 1988
  • Format: Paperback 311 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780374506803 ISBN 10: 0374506809
  • Sales rank: 53,247

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• Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.