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Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal boy of Montreal's Jewish ghetto. Finding custom in league with self-delusion, he makes an attempt to shatter the ghetto's illusory wall space by going into the foreign territory of the goyim. But here, liberty and self-determination continue to elude him. Eventually, Noah comes to identify "justice and safeness and some sort of felicity" in a world he cannot - entirely - leave behind. Richler's superb consideration of Noah's struggle to scale the wall space of the ghetto overflows with abundant comic satire. Child of the Smaller Hero is a compassionate, penetrating consideration of the nature of belonging, told with the savage realism that Mordecai Richler's fiction is celebrated.
