Book of the day: Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne
Irony and deadpan humour have defined Jewish storytelling for millennia. And it is with dry alacrity that Joe Dunthorne, the Welsh novelist and poet renowned for his hilarious yet anguished coming-of-age novel Submarine, tells the astonishing saga of his quest to discover the buried war history of his family, specifically
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