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The Messiah of Stockholm
1987
First Published
3.54
Average Rating
166
Number of Pages
A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light.
Avg Rating
3.54
Number of Ratings
729
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
34%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Author · 25 books

Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008. Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl, Edmund White wrote in the New York Times, "Miss Ozick strikes me as the best American writer to have emerged in recent years...Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor."

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