Audiobooks by Isaac Bashevis Singer

"In this mystical short story, the author recalls frequenting a Broadway cafeteria where he would meet other Polish and Russian immigrants. In the fifties, a woman named Esther became part of their group. Although she had been in a Russian prison camp and now had taken a menial job to support her cripple father, she was cheerful and outgoing. She and the author became good friends, but each time he saw her, she looked more disenchanted; her father died, she was often ill, and she worried about her sanity. Several years after their first meeting, she called the author and came to his apartment to tell him that she had seen Hitler, surrounded by Nazis in the Broadway cafeteria the night it burned down. The author tried to reassure her that she had had a vision, but he was convinced that she was mad. One night he saw her in the subway, looking happy and prosperous, on the arm of an ancient man he had thought was long dead. He was upset by seeing her with the old man, and reappraised her story of seeing Hitler, realizing that if, as Kant argues, time and space are only forms of perception, then she might really have seen Hitler. The next day he learned that she had killed herself some time before he saw her in the subway. This selection is part of the full length audiobook, "Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural.""

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Gimpel, el tonto

"El primer libro de relatos de Isaac Bashevis Singer, Premio Nobel de Literatura. La primera colección de relatos de Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel, el tonto, es un hito en la literatura universal que ganó el aplauso unánime de la crítica desde su publicación en 1957. La historia que da título a este volumen nos acerca a las proezas de Gimpel, un ingenuo panadero que es sistemáticamente engañado por su comunidad pero se niega a tomar represalias contra sus victimarios. Los protagonistas que desfilan por estas páginas dan vida al prodigioso universo creado por la prosa inigualable de su autor. La crítica ha dicho... «Cuando leí por vez primera Gimpel, el tonto tuve la certeza de estar frente a un relato profundamente ingenioso y hermoso, que me permitía adentrarme en todas las capas de la historia como lo haría un arqueólogo en el campo. Es la integridad de la imaginación humana lo que Singer transmite con tantísima belleza» Alfred Kazin"

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Author), Eduardo España (Narrator)

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Fate

"A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater. Recorded before a live audience at Chicago's Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992. Adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Marge Kotlisky as Bessie Gold Malcolm Rothman as The Writer Additional voices by David Cromer, Steven Trovillion and Jensen Wheeler Radio Producer: Robert Neuhaus Recording Engineer: Larry Rock"

Adapted By Arnold Aprill, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Author), David Cromer, Jensen Wheeler, Malcolm Rothman, Marge Kotlisky, Stephen Trovillion (Narrator)

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Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural

"Dark offers chilling stories, both fiction and real life, about the things that scare us the most: murder, hauntings, visitations, insanity and our own vulnerability! Examined through the eyes of some of the world's most gifted writers- Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, W.W. Jacobs, Iain Banks, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Paul Bowles, Will Self, Marjorie Bowen, A.M. Burrage, Blue Balliett -we feel the malice of serial murderers, the cold evil of the undead, the unreasoning hatred of the insane, and, most of all, the incomprehensible suffering of their victims!"

A.M. Burrage, Blue Balliett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, Iain M. Banks, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Marjorie Bowen, Robert Frost, Rudyard Kipling, W.W. Jacobs, Will Self (Author), Colleen Delany, Graeme Malcolm, Grover Gardner, John Hitchcock, Simon Prebble, Vanessa Maroney (Narrator)

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Shadows on the Hudson

"This timeless saga traces the intertwined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York City after World War II. A chain of events disrupts the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present and explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love. Marriages and affairs fall apart; age and death take their toll; the wisdom of the scripture and kabbalah and the precepts of the great philosophers and avatars of modern science are passionately debated in extended conversations that seethe with drama. From gloomy Upper West Side apartments to the Yiddish resorts of Miami, Shadows on the Hudson covers the territory of American Jewry in the aftermath of the Holocaust, providing insight into the contradictory impulses that motivate us all."

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Author), John Rubinstein, Julie Harris, Theodore Bikel (Narrator)

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