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Shosha

Isaac Bashevis Singer

1978250 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1978
first published
  • 1978Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780374263362
  • 1978Fawcett Crest · 286 pages · ENGISBN 9780449239971
  • 1979Jonathan Cape · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780224016827
  • 1980Penguin · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780140053906
  • 1983Penguin · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780374524807
  • 1996Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780374208707
  • 2012Penguin Classics · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780141197630
  • 1999Penguin · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780140186673

*Shosha* is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The original Yiddish version appeared in 1974 in the *Jewish Daily Forward* under the title *Neshome ekspeditsyes (Soul Expeditions).* The main character is aspiring author Aaron Greidinger who lives in the Hasidic quarter of the Jewish neighborhood of Warsaw during the 1930s: "I was an anachronism in every way, but I didn't know it, just as I didn't know that my friendship with Shosha [..] had anything to do with love."

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