Good People - Couverture souple

Baram, Nir

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925240959 ISBN 13 : 9781925240955

Editeur : Text Pub Co, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity... It expands the borders of young literature and opens new landscapes for it." -- Amos Oz

"A very impressive and bold novel, a journey to hell with no return." --La Repubblica

"Quite possibly, Dostoevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today." -- Frankfurter Allgemeinmme Zeitung

"Baram uses intense geographical plotting and is chillingly eloquent...[Good People] is tremendous. I read it in two sittings and I learned a lot. How does a man in his early 30's know how to write like this?" -- The Australian

"Good People rewards the reader's patience while mining a tragic sense of irony that extends all the way to its title." -- Big Issue

"Riveting reading with more than a hint of Solzhenitsyn." --Qantas Magazine

"Astonishingly powerful... [Good People is a] compelling, important story." - New Zealand Listener

'Precise and evocative, Good People is a riveting glimpse into a different place and a different time.' - Canberra Weekly

'[Nir Baram's] narrative anatomises the malleability and fragility of truth, during lives of monstrous brutality and incoherence. Order is ephemeral; chaos is always just a falter away. Meaning and morality are quickly twisted. Unrelenting and undeniable, this is a savage, sometimes horrifyingly comic, autopsy on the warping of once-decent people.' --New Zealand Herald

"The wrenching prose and plot has earned young Israeli author glowing comparisons to Dostoyevsky and Grossman." - The Week

"Promising... reflects Baram's tremendous knowledge." -Publishers Weekly US

"Good People chillingly captures the terrors and tensions of life under Stalin and Hitler... Nir Baram explores the frightening speed and ease with which ordinary people become functionaries in totalitarian societies." - TLS

"[Baram] asks what kind of people would choose to serve... empires of falsehood with their eyes open and their minds sharp. Not monsters or even cynics, he answers in a pacey, plot-heavy novel of dramatic events and big ideas, but gifted storytellers fuelled by ordinary motives of love, loyalty or ambition." --Economist

Présentation de l'éditeur

AN INTELLIGENT, COMPLEX AND LIVELY MASTERPIECE

The first English edition of Nir Baram's astonishing novel that has already become a bestseller in Israel and across Europe.

It's late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in her parents' literary salon.

They each have grand plans for their lives. Neither of them thinks about politics too much, but after catastrophe strikes they will have no choice. Thomas puts his research skills to work cataloguing Nazi propaganda. Sasha persuades herself that working as a literary editor of confessions for Stalin's secret police is the only way to save her family.

When destiny brings them together, they will have to face the consequences of the decisions they have made. Nir Baram's Good People is a tour de force that has been showered with praise in many countries. It reminds us how fiction can present acute moral awareness of the individual in the context of towering historical landscapes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Text Pub Co
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925240959
• ISBN 13: 9781925240955
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 421
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible