{"product_id":"a-house-with-seven-windows-kadya-molodowsky-9780815608455","title":"A House of Seven Windows: Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA House with Seven Windows\u003c\/i\u003e by Kadya Molodowsky is the famed Yiddish poet's only collection of short stories. Written in simple prose, these stories are subtle portraits--tragic-comic, bittersweet, always generous spirited--of ordinary people: Jews in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and Jews struggling to adjust to life in America. A traditional-minded husband is defeated by his wife who wants only the latest fashion. A community leader's position is supported and maintained by his more energetic and political- minded wife. A couple, ardent supporters of the newly formed state of Israel, nevertheless find themselves at odds with their son who intends to live there. An American Jew who almost single-handedly supports his shtetl in Europe returns to find that it has been obliterated by the Nazis. A couple, newly arrived from the DP camps in Europe, struggles to set sail on the wide seas of America and succeeds, but at a price. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile many of the stories are set in Europe and are, in fact, memoirs of Jewish shtetl life, others depict the classic dilemmas of immigrants wrestling with their own identity--stories about adapting to a new culture yet attempting to maintain traditional customs, stories about the inability of one generation to understand the other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMolodowsky's lucid style and keen observation of the absurd and the sublime offer readers beautifully crafted stories filled with richly drawn character portraits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kadya Molodowsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815608454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815608455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.04w x 0.78d","brand":"Kadya Molodowsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995616575743,"sku":"9780815608455","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9f0d47e-63e9-4b43-9d0e-11e0a3f1fd1e.jpg?v=1683336822","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-house-with-seven-windows-kadya-molodowsky-9780815608455","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}