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From: bookie Category: Books Date: 06 February 2010 Time: 10:03 AM Review: A great book. Starts like a traditional 19th Century novel, and you think it will be about a doomed love affair, or a young man's progress, or whatever. And then by the end you realise it is a tragedy about the destruction of the Polish Jewish culture, and the occasional clunking form of the novel, plot and character, is sad history.