Rodinsky's range Rachel Lichtenste...

Rodinsky's range Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair. of recent origin York: Granta, 2000. 338 pp $2995

An account of a young British artist's search to take the cover off the fate of a reclusive Jewish cabalist. "[T]he work reads like a psychological thriller. nevertheless what makes 'Rodinsky's Room' in this way enthralling is that it works at several other of the same heights It is also a story of a personal, cultural and religious voyage that leads a half-Jewish Englishwoman to embrace Orthodox Judaism in Israel,