The novel Pena by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was first published in the New York newspaper "Forverts" in 1967 under the pseudonym I.. Warsaw . Under the pseudonym . Bashevis he saw the light in 1971 in the Buenos Aires newspaper “De Prese”, but in the original language (Yiddish) the book has not been published so far . [ In English for the first time. [ The heroes of the novel - a successful businessman with an unsettled family life and a criminal past, the daughter of a rabbi sympathetic to the socialists, a medium girl who deceives clients, but herself believes her own lies - all seek their place in the world, striving for phantom well-being and happiness ..... ( As in other Bashevis-Singer novels, Warsaw of the early twentieth century is again before us - its buildings, parks, streets and, of course, the Jewish quarter, where the writer spent his childhood.