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A Break in the Chain: The Early Kozminskys  by Tangea Tansley

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September 2011, no. 334

A Break in the Chain: The Early Kozminskys  by Tangea Tansley

Affirm Press, $27.95 pb, 320 pp, 9780980790467

A Break in the Chain: The Early Kozminskys  by Tangea Tansley

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September 2011, no. 334

Any attempt to write a novel that covers three generations, two centuries, and two continents is undeniably ambitious. Include subject matter that ranges from Jewishness and gemstones to the occult, and set the story in a vibrant and sometimes turbulent time in the history of Melbourne and Victoria, from the 1850s gold rushes to the early 1900s, and the possibilities are exciting. Whether A Break in the Chain is also the ‘brilliant imagining’ it purports to be is another question entirely.

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