Solomon Gursky

ISBN-10: 2364681243
ISBN-13: 9782364681248
Category: Literary Collections
Pages: 640
Language: French
Published: 2016-02-04T00:00:00+01:00
Publisher: Média Diffusion
Author: Mordecai Richler

Description

Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois le nom de Solomon Gursky. Ce personnage énigmatique deviendra bientôt pour lui une obsession qui l'incitera à mener une vaste enquête aux quatre coins du monde. Toute sa vie sera consacrée à démêler le vrai du faux dans l'histoire d'une famille aux origines drapées de mystère. Nous entraînant dans les bas-fonds londoniens du XIXe siècle, en Arctique avec l'expédition de Franklin en 1845, jusqu'en Amérique pendant la prohibition, des paysages vallonnés des Cantons-de-L'Est d'hier et d'aujourd'hui aux hauteurs de Westmount et ruelles du Mile End, Solomon Gursky est un roman puissant qui captive et terrasse par sa verve et son humour mordant. Dans cette traversée épique et hilarante, il est autant question d'Inuits convertis au judaïsme, de la Longue Marche de Mao, d'âmes échouées au passage du Nord-Ouest, des bars jazz de Montréal, que d'un corbeau maléfique tournoyant au-dessus de six générations de Gursky. Fresque totale de l'Amérique du Nord, de la fin de Far West au début de l'industrialisation, en bifurquant par la révolution russe, la Seconde Guerre mondiale et les seventies, Solomon Gursky, n'ayons pas peur des mots, est un chef-d'oeuvre.

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