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That Business at Brody, by Jack Winter, PaperbackThe assassination of Czar Alexander in 1881 unleashed a sequence
of consequences which impelled, in the next two decades, the birth of
Zionism and the proliferation of transatlantic migrations. Following a
family of Russian Jews scattered by persecution and re-united by chance
at the Mansion House in London where a humanitarian mission is launched
with mixed motives. Jewish refugees attempt to cope with the
asphyxiating realities of domestic and spiritual life in the
pestilential Austro-Hungarian bolthole which is Brody. A pair of young
lovers whose lives entwined with the quixotic misadventures of a husband
and wife team with messianic inclinations and royal connections. A tale
of survival despite best laid plans, That Business at Brody is a
historical novel told by a variety of narrators with humour and humanity
and pulls focus on transient life with contemporary resonance.
There is a small blemish on the top left of the back side, from shelf handling, see photos #3-4. You may not even notice it. Photos #2-9 are of the exact copy you will be getting.
