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In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn of the twentieth century and the dark days of 1939, the Moskat family battled on. But like many Jewish families in Poland they can no longer turn a blind eye to the dwindling of their fortunes. In Warsaw, where saints mingle with swindlers, tough Zionists argue with mystic philosophers, and medieval rabbis rub shoulders with ultra-modern painters, life is inexorably changing. Secularism and war inch nearer and the family Moskat clings on.

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A masterpiece, a triumph of realism, precisely finished, exactly located, a miraculous marriage of accuracy and imagination * Sunday Times *
A loving and detailed portrait of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. * Globe & Mail *
His greatest work. -- Ian Samson * Guardian '1000 novels everyone must read' *
Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality -- New York Review of Books * Ted Hughes *
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The Family Moskat

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/12/2000
      ISBN13: 9780099285489, 978-0099285489
      ISBN10: 0099285487
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn of the twentieth century and the dark days of 1939, the Moskat family battled on. But like many Jewish families in Poland they can no longer turn a blind eye to the dwindling of their fortunes. In Warsaw, where saints mingle with swindlers, tough Zionists argue with mystic philosophers, and medieval rabbis rub shoulders with ultra-modern painters, life is inexorably changing. Secularism and war inch nearer and the family Moskat clings on.

      Trade Review
      A masterpiece, a triumph of realism, precisely finished, exactly located, a miraculous marriage of accuracy and imagination * Sunday Times *
      A loving and detailed portrait of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. * Globe & Mail *
      His greatest work. -- Ian Samson * Guardian '1000 novels everyone must read' *
      Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality -- New York Review of Books * Ted Hughes *
      He makes most contemporary practitioners of the art of fiction look like singers with only one song * Guardian *

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