WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. The way the story was told took a bit to get into, and some of the time jumping was jarring at times, but the Gursky family's intrigue was fascinating. Janofsky, J: "Whiskey sour: a great family saga full of booze, ambition … and shame", Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon_Gursky_Was_Here&oldid=1001336734, Articles needing additional references from July 2010, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 January 2021, at 07:01. 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. It's a hit! Overall. There's just this one thing... T. The family tree is helpful, but a solid friends- and acquaintances tree might have come in handy as well. Eprahim Gursky come in on a sled. To see what your friends thought of this book. 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. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The story is not told in a linear way, but bucks and switches between time and place, from Canada to China and all points between, mixing legend and truth, mixing Jewish and Inuit mythology. He won the Commonwealth Prize, the Paris Review Humour Prize, was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novels Solomon Gursky Was Here and St. Urbain's Horseman, and was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. 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. He calls people to reform and become religious. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Viking, 1989 - Explorers - 557 pages. Solomon Gursky himself is a bit of a conundrum, a redeemer but also a Gursky through and through. I do wish Morrie's chara. It was also not completely definitive what had happened which left me somewhat unsatisfied. Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Read 143 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. He can be quite funny, yes, and I like the idea of a Jewish trickster. Mordecai Richler was an acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist born in Montreal in 1931. Novels with this kind of structure just aren't my thing. I do wish Morrie's character had been developed a bit more on the page instead of realizing there was so much more to him after the fact. Solomon Gursky Was Here is a novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler first published by Viking Canada in 1989. Through Moses Berger's hunt after the elusive Solomon Gursky, the black sheep of a boot-legging family gone legit, you are immersed in 400 years of (jewish) history. The build up to knowing what had happened to Solomon, the way the story of Ephraim was woven into it all. Since I don’t share Richler’s obsessions with wealth, big boobs and knockdowns of Quebecois culture, I found the book a slog. I don’t have the patience, though, for the machismo and the repetitive details around the crotchety Magog community and the garrulous, backstabbing Gurskys. However, it's quite entertaining, funny and well written, and a bit of a detective story as well. Book: Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler. Solomon Gursky is a very complex book, but if the reader is reasonably alert and careful all of the characters are easy to keep straight. This is the only Canadian novel Canada I can think of might be called an epic. OTHER BOOKS. The first edition of the novel was published in 1989, and was written by Mordecai Richler. Start by marking “Solomon Gursky Was Here” as Want to Read: Error rating book. 5 stars: 1: 4 stars: 5: 3 stars: 1: 2 stars: 0: 1 star: 0: LibraryThing Review User Review - bodachliath - LibraryThing. Search. What a mess! Readers may spend the first part of ''Solomon Gursky Was Here'' wondering about its title, only to discover, halfway through, that the search for Solomon is very much at the novel's center. Es wurden noch keine Bewertungen geschrieben. Luckily, Solomon Gursky is the polestar that sets much of this back on course. But I really loved Richler's prose, and it was fun to experience pieces of Montreal and the surrounding area in the time capsule of this book. [At the end of the book, it is implied that Morrie was the one who stole the money from Bernard's secretary. What people are saying - Write a review. History buffs, people who enjoy mob stories, Canadians, Jewish people. The joke-filled saga of the devious and occasionally vicious Gursky clan revolves around a serious theme: This is the only Canadian novel Canada I can think of might be called an epic. 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. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The build up to knowing what had happened to Solomon, the way the story of Ephraim was woven into it all. Five generations of Gurskys, in. From inside the book . Mordecai Richler was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. In what is touted by critics as possibly Canadian author Mordecai Richler’s 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. But how does Ephraim's protege, Solomon, fit in? You can’t stop watching. This was my second reading of the book, and twenty years later I still found it an intelligent and hilarious, if somewhat biting, romp through Canadian Jewish history. The main flaw — noticeable in my rereading 30 years after initial publication — is Richler's tendency to drift from witty, incisive satire to clumsy and contemptuous sideswipes. but it all too quickly turned into a shambles.
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