Moshe Sakal

An apprentice jeweller, assistant to his uncle, is writing a novel based on family stories about the effects on the extended family of a blue diamond given to his great-great-aunt, a famous singer, by Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire and supposed to be cursed.

A confusing mish-mash where it is not clear whether what we are reading is what "actually" happened or Tom/Tomi's creative re-telling of the family stories. Another novel where I wished I'd constructed a family tree to keep me oriented, especially as the family is even more extended than first appears. I was reading this through a bout of illness, which was probably the wrong time to do it.… (plus d'informations)