The Image and Other Stories

The Image is a collection of twenty-two stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple. In these stories, Singer reveals the infinite and colorful contrariness of human beings in vernacular language that is startlingly vivid and fresh.

"There is no psychologizing in Singer, only a continuous astonishment at the improbabilities of which human beings are capable. His demons are not externalized impulses, they're demons. To Singer, the great delighter in the senses, the world of the senses is an illusion, death a mere interruption in an eternal journey." – The New York Times