Diamonds

by Ester Ḳreyṭman

2010 294 pages eng

Set in Antwerp and London, this novel tells the story of the collapsing world of Gedaliah Berman, a rich but unscrupulous Jewish diamond merchant at the time of the First World War. It presents an account of the world of the diamond trade and the human upheaval created by the war in the two countrie…