Revisiting again . . . Warsaw from the beginning of the century up to 1939, a vast extended Jewish family and what they get up to before the dreadful end we know awaits them. Originally written in Yiddish, this rich saga is a wonderful excursion into another world - the complex characters, worldly embroilments coupled with religious agonisings, multiple divorces and re-marriages and above all the sense of life as a hurly-burly of passionate impulses. What a writer!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 45 April 2008 ) |
