That Business at Brody
Jack Winter$21.21
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The 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 reunited 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 humor and humanity and pulls focus on transient life with contemporary resonance.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: At Bay Press
Published: 11/04/2024
ISBN: 9781998779345
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d
Following a family of Russian Jews scattered by persecution and reunited 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 humor and humanity and pulls focus on transient life with contemporary resonance.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: At Bay Press
Published: 11/04/2024
ISBN: 9781998779345
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d