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Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal’ s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion, he attempts to shatterthe ghetto’s illusory walls by entering the foreign territory of the goyim. But here,freedom and self-determination continue to elude him. Eventually, Noah comes to recognize“justice and safety and a kind of felicity” in a world he cannot—entirely—leavebehind. Richler’s superb account of Noah’s struggle to scale the walls of the ghettooverflows with rich comic satire. Son of a Smaller Hero is a compassionate, penetratingaccount of the nature of belonging, told with the savage realism for which MordecaiRichler’s fiction is celebrated.