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Solomon Gursky Was Here

(1989)
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Awards
1990 Booker Prize (shortlist)

Moses berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an absession. 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. His quest to unravel their story leads him to the enigmatic Ephriam Gursky: document forger in Victorian England, sole survivor of the ill-fated Franklin expedition and charismatic religious leader of the Arctic...


Genre: Literary Fiction

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