The Family Frying Pan

The Family Frying Pan is a fixup novel written by Bryce Courtenay.

The author claims that the main character is heavily based on his first wife's grandmother.

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.

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.