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The Penitent, Paperback / softback Book

The Penitent Paperback / softback

Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series

Paperback / softback

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent is the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith.

Following his journey as he flees Nazi persecution in Poland in 1939, through wealth and a failed marriage in New York, and on to Israel, it charts his transformation from worldly confusion to spiritual certainty in orthodox Judaism.

This powerful work is an examination of the nature of faith, the question of identity and the notion of how to lead a good life.

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