Featuring three main characters, Saffity, Max, and Colette, all post-war exiles, this is a rags to riches saga, ranging over the last seven decades and set in England, Paris and South Africa. By the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is one of those older style books..a big,big read, filled with fascinating characters through five generations. Saffity, a Greek Jew who seeks to hide his religious background, is posessed by huge ambitions to succeed in life and to create an empire of wealth, his friend Max, a refugee from the pogroms of Poland and Colette, a Parisian courtesan with a dubious background, find that their separate lives intertwine through the generations, to make a rich and entertaining story of love, greed, wealth and hate. It's a great big satisfying read !
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