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Son of a Smaller Hero
Mordecai Richler
其他書名
Penguin Modern Classics Edition
出版
McClelland & Stewart
, 2017-05-02
主題
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0771073372
9780771073373
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=C_-OEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion, he attempts to shatter the ghetto’s illusory walls by entering the foreign territory of the
goyim
. But here, freedom and self-determination continue to elude him. Eventually, Noah comes to recognize “justice and safety and a kind of felicity” in a world he cannot – entirely – leave behind. Richler’s superb account of Noah’s struggle to scale the walls of the ghetto overflows with rich comic satire.
Son of a Smaller Hero
is a compassionate, penetrating account of the nature of belonging, told with the savage realism for which Mordecai Richler’s fiction is celebrated.