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| Original Title: | Solomon Gursky Was Here |
| ISBN: | 0143012649 (ISBN13: 9780143012641) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1990), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (1990) |
Mordecai Richler
Paperback | Pages: 576 pages Rating: 3.98 | 2698 Users | 133 Reviews
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| Title | : | Solomon Gursky Was Here |
| Author | : | Mordecai Richler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | January 29th 2002 by Penguin Canada (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Novels |
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Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with its colourful bootlegging history, its bizarre connections with the North and the Inuit, and its wildly eccentric relations, both fascinates and infuriates him. His quest to unravel their story leads to the enigmatic Ephraim Gursky: document forger in Victorian England, sole survivor of the ill-fated Franklin expedition and charasmatic religious leader of the Arctic. Of Ephraim's three grandsons, Bernard has fought, wheeled and cheated his way to the head of a liquor empire. His brother Morrie has reluctantly followed along. But how does Ephraim's protege, Solomon, fit in? Elusive, mysterious and powerful, Solomon Gursky hovers in the background, always out of Moses' grasp, but present-like an omen.Rating Epithetical Books Solomon Gursky Was Here
Ratings: 3.98 From 2698 Users | 133 ReviewsColumn Epithetical Books Solomon Gursky Was Here
I didn't care for the book but it's well written. Vast. So... my liking of it has no bearing on its genius.This is an ambitious, confusing and sometimes crazy mixture of fact and fantasy. It tells the story of an ultimately rich Jewish Canadian family from the early nineteenth century to the 1980s. The story is loosely held together by Moses Berger, an alcoholic writer obsessed with the family who has accumulated scraps of information over a lifetime. At the heart of the story are the legends of the family's founding father Ephraim, a small-time criminal in London who somehow inveigles himself a
this was a re-read for me... but i last read it when it was published (1989) and have a crap memory. so all i retained was the barest of strings, and the sense of just loving this story.i have to say that i get so much enjoyment out of reading richler (and, as with carol shields, i get bummed fairly frequently over the fact they are no longer here to share new work with us). if the word 'romp' were ever well used in reviewing a book, it would be for this novel. it's a total romp. (can't believe
This is my first foray into Mordecai Richler's adult fiction. I'm not sure why, but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it - perhaps because being assigned a nearly 600-page novel in the last few weeks of my degree is a bit of a bitter pill to swallow. However, I ended up actually quite enjoying it, mostly for the reason that people seem to dislike it: I'm a huge fan of multiple interlocking narratives, most especially if they aren't presented chronologically. Others have found the book difficult to
This is the story of the founding of a family dynasty through the eyes of an outside chronicler, Moses Berger, who is the son of a poet who the family supported. Really, the book is about many things: an obsession with those who are more financially fortunate, living in the shadow of our parents, Jewish experience throughout the world, the North and experiences of the North, family business and prohibition, and, I may be reaching here, who owns the past and who owns Canada's past.
A huge volume, the story of a family in Canada. A lot of flashbacks and flash forwards.. sometimes I have the impression Mordecai Richler got lost in his story as there a some passages that are quite long. Anyway, this book is an adventure ! Quite thrilling !
What a hard book to rate ! Mordecai Richler doesn't pull any punches and is not kind his readers, especially if the latest have just a vague knowledge of Judaism and Jewish culture. A lot of information is given, many allusions are made that you'll probably understand only if you read the book 2 or 3 times, PoVs mercilessly jump from one character to the next, from one CENTURY to the next. One of the main characters, a kind scholar/drunkard obsessed with the rich and shady Gursky family, is not
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