Old love cover

Old love

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Set in various parts of the globe and permeated with references to Jewish life in prewar Poland, these 18 stories are quintessantial Singer, with their characteristic mixture of homely details and metaphysical omens, cosmic coincidences and insoluble dilemmas, dybbuks and angels, curses and enchantments. His characters dream and have vision, lust, pray, exist in the mundane world, but have intimations of a higher reality. The three stories "Elka and Meir," "The Bus," and "The Manuscript" are exceptionally powerful.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?