Rodinskys Room Book

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    New York Times

    ‘The book reads like a psychological thriller. Yet what makes Rodinsky’s Room so enthralling is that it works at several…

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    The Guardian

    ‘An incredibly intimate story in which London’s Jewish East End is movingly reconstructed through the prism of one man’s chaotic…

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    Jewish Chronicle

    ‘Lichtenstein is articulate and direct in her reportage and honest in the admission of her obsession… Sinclair’s musings are eloquent…

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    Robert Macfarlane

    ‘Rodinsky’s Room is absorbing, puzzling, brilliant – it interrogates our ideas of memory, of how history resides in objects and…

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    TLS

    ‘The binary structure yields an intertwining and overlapping of flashbacks and speculations, false starts and discoveries, interviews and ideas… This…

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    Literary Review

    ‘Rodinsky’s Room is full of strange encounters and compelling testimony, part elegy to the lost East End and part celebration…

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    Independent on Sunday

    ‘This is a book touched with mystical notions, full of astonishing coincidences and lucky breaks… It is a testimony to…

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    The Times

    ‘Rodinsky’s Room draws you in. So does the Lichtenstein – Sinclair study of it. It is extraordinary as an examination…

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    The Guardian

    ‘This is a mystery and a detective story. It is a story of obsession and possession. It is a story…

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    The Observer

    ‘The most absorbing book I’ve read for years. Rodinsky’s Room is many things: an inquiry into the nature of identity;…

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