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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet.

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Debut novel set in a Jewish old people's home in New York. The book has already achieved recognition, winning the 1994 National Jewish Book Award and reaching the Booker Prize shortlist of twelve. The book's main character is trying to stage a production of "Hamlet" featuring his fellow residents. Running through this are tales of his adventures in America, Germany, Zurich and Auschwitz. "Masterly, imaginative and provocatively disturbing in i...

Edmond Music, Catholic priest and director of Beale Hall research institute, has a secret: he doesn't believe in God. And that's not all. For the past forty years he has shared a bed with his housekeeper, Maude Moriarty from Donegal. In fact Edmond Music isn't even Edmond Music. He's Edmond Music, French child of Hungarian parents - and a Jew. As he sees out his days in his Shropshire mansion, devoting his time to kabbalistic studies, his buri...

Despite a lack of piety, Father Edmond Music--a converted Jew--is entrenched at an English estate with a fabulous library. "Clerical Errors" opens with what could be an attempt on Edmond's life by Vatican henchmen, and follows his search for a stolen Shakespeare folio, and his unraveling love affair with his lifelong housekeeper.