Nathan Malkin retruns to New York from premature retirement in Israel, he comes baring heavy family baggage. Memories of his parents' bitter marriage, of the tragic death of his wife and only son, and of his strange, guilt-ridden relationship with a deranged, now deceased brother, Nacham. Almost immediately Nathan instigates, and is caught up in a web of outrageous games and liaisons within the not so warm bosom of his large, bourgeois family. In a projected trip to Russia with his brother's impulsive son Michael, Nathan contrives four variant original drafts of a book he wrote many years ago, called the Stolen Jew (a tale of Jewish boy kindnapped in Imperial Russia), for sale to Russian collectors, the proceeds to Soviet dissidents. A novel of family, intrigue, book forgery and obsession. Red boards, brown cloth spine. DW not price clipped, tan red lettering, faint sunning of spine. Very clean, solidly bound. sm 4 to, 322 pages First Edition

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