New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of an orphaned Polish survivor of World War II, brought up in a begrudging family in Sweden, who is obsessed with the idea that he is the son of the legendary Polish writer, Bruno Schulz, who was killed by the Nazis. Edmund White describes Ozick as 'the best American writer to have emerged in recent years... Her artistic strength derives from her moral energy... Judaism has given to her what Catholicism gave to Flannery O'Connor: authority, penetration and indignation.'. ISBN: 0-394-54701-2.