Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, shortlisted for the
Booker Prize 1990
Since the age of 11, Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky
clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of
Jewish-Canadian descent. Now a 52-year-old alcoholic biographer, Berger
is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives,
especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not
have died in a plane crash.
A rich, irreverent, and exuberant comic masterpiece from the author of
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St Urbain's Horseman.