The Slave (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Set in seventeenth-century Poland The Slave tells the story of Jacob a young Talmudic scholar sold into slavery after the Chmielnicki massacres - and who falls in love with his masters daughter Wanda. Even after he is ransomed he finds he cant live without her and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a wife who is not Jewish and by the difficulties of concealing her identity Jacob stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.