The free-spir­it­ed, 19-year old Tsilke has spent her whole life in the for­est, but what hap­pens when the out­side world, with its strange rules and social oblig­a­tions, begins to encroach on her syl­van idyll? Segalovit­sh's 1922 nov­el-which scan­dal­ized and enter­tained a gen­er­a­tion of Pol­ish-Jew­ish read­ers, and left its mark on the pop­u­lar imag­i­na­tion-cement­ed his posi­tion as one of the most pop­u­lar Yid­dish writ­ers of the inter­war peri­od. "Segalovitsh [...] is unfailingly in dialogue with his own shadow." - Itsik Manger "Packed with emotions." - Rokhl Korn "Incomparable [...] Segalovitsh doesn't write like the rest of us." - Yehoshua Perle