num_pages: 509
description: WINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent. Now a 52-year-old alcoholic boigrapher, Berger is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives, especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not have died in a plane crash.A rich, irreverent and exuberant comic masterpiece from the author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St Urbain's Horseman.
language: English
title: Solomon Gursky Was Here
titlecomplete: Solomon Gursky Was Here
genres: Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Jewish, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3006
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book Overall
publisher: Arrow Random House Group