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Solomon Gursky Was Here

Mordecai Richler

Paperback | Pages: 576 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 2698 Users | 133 Reviews

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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)

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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.

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Title	:	Solomon Gursky Was Here
Author	:	Mordecai Richler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	January 29th 2002 by Penguin Canada (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Novels

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In what is touted by critics as possibly Canadian author Mordecai Richlers best novel, we accompany Moses Berger in his obsessive quest to unravel the secrets of the Gurskys, a Jewish family who ran one of the biggest Canadian business empires. Berger, the son of a Jewish poet, a drunkard and an unsuccessful writer, particularly searches for traces of Solomon Gursky, the most enigmatic of the three Gursky brothers who saw the rise of their familys fortune during the prohibition years as

A vast, time-shuffled satire and Canadian frontier epic on a Jewish dynasty of cannibalistic fraudsters/bootleggers, as uncovered during a life-time obsession by the part-time drunk Moses Berger.Eskimo myths and Judaic rituals swirl around the dodgy interitance left by the charlatan Ephraim and his charming, acute, crooked grandson Solomon, a shadowy figure (hence the title) often glimpsed amid world events and famous figures.Female characters are drawn a little sketchily in comparison, and

It is an epic book, and I do love books with non-linear plots, multiple levels of detail, cultural and historical references, and characters who are never just black-or-white. However, during the course of reading it all has to come together, and for this book that moment took too long.

I didn't care for the book but it's well written. Vast. So... my liking of it has no bearing on its genius.

indeed, he was!embroiling jewry into every major canadian historical event of the past 200 years (not to mention the international ones!) is pure chutzpah. it's this quality that makes mordecai richler so riotous and touching to me - in everything he wrote, he goes all in. the gurskys are larger than life, yet even in the final pages richler draws them back to montreal - to the family mansion in westmount, no less. in the second grade, i was assigned to present to the class on any canadian

What a mess! ... This was my first and likely last Richler novel. I was expecting something a lot more coherent out of a man who was supposedly one of the great Canadian novelists. This is a ridiculously overcooked, meandering book with little-to-no focus. I think as late as the final few chapters, Richler was STILL introducing new characters!! I find it pretty infuriating when an author does that. The book is far too grandiose in scope. He introduces too many characters, too many disconnected