Selected 1993 Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewNarrator Ruth Frank continues the fascinating story of her Jewish family and its privileged circle begun in the celebrated novel... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Though Freed is a five-star novelist through and through, this novel is by far my favorite. It has the lean necessity of cruelty and violent thoughts and angry passion that has shaped the best of Nadine Gordimer's work set in South Africa. Though it might help to have read Freed's previous novel "Home Ground" (equally brilliant, if a little lighter and funnier), one can read this as is and be spellbound. (As for the cover . . . search for the original hardback.)
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