Keile la Pèl-roja

The year is 1911 when Keyle, a Jewish prostitute, meets the love of her life, Yarme, an ex-convict. The young couple dream of escaping the squalor of the Warsaw ghetto, where they live under constant threat of pogroms, so when Max, an old acquaintance, offers them a share in his lucrative business in South America, they don't hesitate for a moment. But Max is also attracted to Yarme, and a disastrous love triangle emerges that will haunt Keyle both in the dark streets of the ghetto and on the avenues of a big American city. In this brilliant novel, previously unpublished in Spanish, Singer portrays, with the mastery of Dickens or Dostoyevsky, the underworld of the Jewish community, populating it with a rich cast of singular characters with whom he creates a vivid fresco of an entire society and an era.