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Jason Steger

Jason Steger
Jason Steger was for many years literary editor of The Age.

Jason Steger reviews ‘Noble Fragments: The maverick who broke up the world’s greatest book’ by Michael Visontay

December 2024, no. 471 25 November 2024
Michael Visontay’s Noble Fragments is about second chances, serendipitous connections, and simple good fortune. At its heart is a young man fleeing bankruptcy in Hungary who reinvents himself as a rare-book dealer in the United States and his impact on the Visontay family, which had survived the horrors of the Holocaust to become a classic example of Central European migration to Australia after ... (read more)