Solomon Gursky Was Here (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mordecai Richler
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Plot: Family chronicle
- Time of Work: The 1840’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Northern Canada and Montreal
- Principal Characters: Solomon Gursky, Moses Berger, Bernard Gursky, Morrie Gursky, Henry Gursky
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Mythology or myths, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Jews or Jewish life, Fathers, Alcohol, Money, Prohibition
- Locales: Montreal, Canada
The Novel
Solomon Gursky Was Here spans two centuries as it traces an extraordinary Jewish family from its shady founder, Ephraim Gursky, to its huge success in the liquor business. The novel also provides a biographer of the family, Moses Berger, who searches for the legendary and lost Solomon Gursky.
The book begins with the arrival of Ephraim Gursky in Canada as the only survivor of the ill-fated Lord Franklin expedition of 1846 in search of the Northwest Passage. Ephraim is portrayed as a trickster who dupes the Native Canadians by announcing that he has come...
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