Shadows on the Hudson

A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer''s masterpiece (Richard Bernstein The New York Times) Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its center is Boris Makaver a pious wealthy businessman whose greatest trial is his unstable daughter Anna. A chain of events disrupts the lives of the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present as Singer explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love in the aftermath of the Holocaust.