by Mordecai Richler · Fischer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596117888
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«Solomon Gursky war hier» is the novel by Mordecai Richler, published by Fischer in paperback (615 pages, in German).
Family saga about the Gursky dynasty, a family of liquor distillers who amass a fortune through alcohol smuggling, bribery, lies and intrigue. The plot ranges from Tsarist Russia and Victorian England to northern Canada and contemporary Wall Street, with ambition, power and secrets at its core.
German translation by Hartmut Zahn and Carina von Enzenberg; the English original, Solomon Gursky Was Here, appeared in 1989. In 1990 it was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas, with an interest in Canadian and Jewish literature.
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.
