"Brief Hours and Weeks awakes many memories of Cape Town, the city of Emanuel Derman's youth and mine, as it was half a century ago. The chapter on the lonely Mrs Gold is a triumph."
J M Coetzee
Nobel Laureate
"What a delight. It succeeds in writerly craft, narrative, evocation of people, times and places and-not least-in authorial courage and candor."
James Grant
author of Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
"This is a touching, evocative (and beautifully illustrated) memoir, a vibrant portrayal of a vanished yet not wholly distant world. Emanuel Derman paints a convincing picture with great skill, candour and humanity. These are precious memories, which you will enjoy reading."
Stefan Stern
former Financial Times columnist and author
"Professor Derman writes with such honesty, openness and detail that I feel I may have developed false memories. 'But, Paul, you aren't Jewish and you've never been to Cape Town.' Now I'm not so sure."
Paul Wilmott
Mathematician, Author and Semi-Professional Controversialist
