Immigrant Experience in Fiction

Contrast and Comparison of Mordecai Richler’s Son of a Smaller and Nino Ricci’s “Lives of the Saints”.

Mordecai Richler’s Son of a Smaller Hero (1955) documents life in the Montreal ghetto and Noah Adler’s first tentative ventures into Anglo, goyim society. Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints also details the experience of migration. Their approaches to the immigrant experience are compared and contrasted.