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.
- ISBN10 0374531536
- ISBN13 9780374531539
- Publish Date 26 November 2007 (first published 1 September 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English