![]() ![]() His novels were epic in scope and global in range he anticipated 9/11 in a novel called The Last of Days, written, astonishingly, in 1983. Later he became the writer who single-handedly saved my career by taking my much-rejected novel The White Family to his friend and publisher Mai Ghoussoub at Saqi, who loved it and became my publisher too. He, Nina and stepdaughter daughter Rachel, and after Nina’s death his beloved partner Elaine Freed, were family to us, and Musa and Nina were loving godparents to our daughter Rosa. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both his passion to protect others from harm, seen in his work for PEN Writers in Prison Committee, and his inexhaustible desire to make people happy, may have sprung from tragedy, the death of nearly all his mother’s Jewish family in the Nazi death-camps. My husband Nick Rankin is also a writer we read Musa’s books, he read ours, and we printed off our just-finished manuscripts on his massive photocopier, always with a bottle of champagne. Moris Farhi (always called Musa) began for us back in 1981 as a great-hearted man, intellectual and writer who was one of our dearest friends, someone to laugh with and eat with and feel safe with, whose imagination and thinking were always global and generous. ![]()
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