{"product_id":"2026200007152-secondhand-solomon-gursky-was-here","title":"Solomon Gursky Was Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping work of Canadian literary fiction, Solomon Gursky Was Here chronicles the obsessive decades-long quest of Moses Berger, a hard-drinking writer consumed by his fixation on the mythical and elusive Solomon Gursky, a member of a powerful and scandalous Jewish family whose influence seems to stretch across centuries of Canadian history. Mordecai Richler constructs a darkly comic and satirical epic that moves between the doomed 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin and the glittering, corrupt world of twentieth-century Montreal high society, weaving together legend, family saga, and national myth. With razor-sharp wit and an irreverent eye, Richler skewers the pretensions of the Canadian establishment while presenting a richly layered portrait of Jewish immigrant ambition, identity, and reinvention. The novel argues, with gleeful subversion, that the true history of a nation is written not in official records but in the outrageous, half-buried stories of its most audacious outsiders. Widely regarded as one of the great Canadian novels, it stands as a masterwork of satirical storytelling, both hilarious and profound in its ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887887790299,"sku":"2026200007152-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ac08541b-499a-4eeb-a988-0fbd3211765a.png?v=1781747857","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007152-secondhand-solomon-gursky-was-here","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}