"Nineteen Eighty-Four" Translator Liu Shaoming's Lifelong Literary Passion Works by Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and National Book Award Winners Discovering a glimmer of hope amidst suffering and absurdity
This book collects nine works by three American Jewish authors. The five works by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer all have mystical overtones, eerie and otherworldly, adopting an open attitude towards life and death. The three stories by Bernard Malamud consistently depict the suffering of Jewish people, and also include themes of "reconciliation" and "forgiveness," lightly or heavily, reconciling with oneself or others, and reconciling with decisions that lead to "eternal regret." Philip Roth's one piece is wild and absurd, with a lighter historical burden, representing another facet of Jewish authors.
