The Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay Softcover Book

Title: The Family Frying Pan by Bryce Courtenay Softcover Book.
Author: Bryce Courtenay.
Illustrated By: Ann Williams.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: Penguin 2001.
Publisher: Penguin Books.
Year First Published: 1997.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: McPhersons Printing Group, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia.
Page Count: 351 pages.
Width: 11.0cm
Height: 18.0cm
Thickness: 3.0cm
Info: The Family Frying Pan is a fixup novel written by Bryce Courtenay. It was first published in 1997, then re-written and reissued in 2001.
The novel was originally published as a series of semi-linked short stories. It received various changes and a back story and was re-published as such.
The author claims that the main character is heavily based on his first wife's grandmother.
Set initially in Tsarist Russia, the novel tells of Sara Moses, always known as 'Mrs Moses'. She is a sixteen-year-old servant girl who is the sole survivor of a pogrom in her shtetl. She manages to escape and is able to bring with her only a heavy frying pan found in the ruins of the Rabbi's house.
She travels across Russia, hoping to find freedom and safety, utilising the pan to cook what food she is able to find. As she travels, she is joined by various fellow-escapees from Russia. Every night, around the cooking fire, each traveller tells a tale from his or her life.
Mrs Moses eventually finds sanctuary in Australia and marries a fellow (non-Jewish) Russian refugee. Their great-granddaughter, the narrator, continues to cook fish every Friday evening for shabbat dinner, using the frying pan, which is possessed of a Russian Soul.
Arthur Bryce Courtenay was a South African-Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. 
Salutation on front papers of previous owner.
Price: R 95.00 Inc Vat.