by Mordecai Richler · Editions du Sous sol · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782364681224
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«Solomon Gursky» is the novel by Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, published by Editions du Sous sol in paperback (640 pages, in French).
As a child, Moses Berger hears the name Solomon Gursky and becomes obsessed with the origins of that family. His investigation takes him from the London underworld of the nineteenth century to Franklin's Arctic, from Prohibition-era America to Montreal, and weaves together Inuit converts to Judaism, Mao's Long March and a malevolent raven across six generations.
French translation by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné; the English original, Solomon Gursky Was Here, was published in 1989.
A read for those interested in Canadian fiction, family sagas and twentieth-century historical fiction.
Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer from Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for his novels set in Montreal's Jewish community; including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children.
