Издания и произведения

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky is the touching, well-wrought story of the Lapinsky family, Jewish immigrants living in Toronto in the '30s and '40s. The focus of the novel falls on Sonny, the third son of four, and his relationship with his father, Yacov, a street peddler and stubborn traditionalist. When Sonny marries an Italian girl, Yacov says the prayer for the dead over him although he secretly admires his son, who will grow into a champion boxer. A key event in the story takes place in August 1933 when all four sons are involved in the Christie Pits riot, a battle between Nazi sympathizers and Jewish youth at a local ballpark. The…