Fools’ Tears and Prayers

Gregory Kanovich

1983

When will he come? When? When?

Zelda Fradkina is sitting at the piano and playing a Bach fugue. There is no one at home other than the Osherova widow Golda, the cook and housecleaner. Father does not linger in these backwoods (though he is a lumber merchant). He travels all over the northwestern territory, argues with the raftsmen, and disappears…

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Gregory Kanovich

b. 1929

Gregory Kanovich was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He is a novelist, poet, scriptwriter, and playwright who worked for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from Lithuania in the 1980s. Kanovich writes mainly in Russian, and his novels, many of which describe Jewish life, have not been translated. In the early 1990s he immigrated to Israel.

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