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Good People
Good People | Nir Baram
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Its 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 elaborating Nazi propaganda. Sasha persuades herself that working as a literary editor of confessions for Stalins 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 Barams Good People has been showered with praise in many countries. With its acute awareness of the individual amid towering historical landscapes, it is a tour de force: sparkling, erudite, a glimpse into the abyss. Nir Baram was born into a political family in Jerusalem in 1976. His grandfather and father were both ministers in Israeli Labor Party governments. He has worked as a journalist and an editor, and as an advocate for equal rights for Palestinians. He began publishing fiction when he was twenty-two, and is the author of five novels, including The Remaker of Dreams, Good People and World Shadow. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages and received critical acclaim around the world. He has been shortlisted several times for the Sapir Prize and in 2010 received the Prime Ministers Award for Hebrew Literature. Text will publish a work of reportage by Nir Baram in 2017. A freezing depiction of moral decay. Berlingske Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuityIt expands the borders of young literature and opens new landscapes for it. Amos Oz One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today. Haaretz
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Balibee146
Good People | Nir Baram
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#gratefulreads today asks for a #favoriteauthor I hope you didn't seriously expect just one @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620 😂😂😘
Here's a few.... Kate Atkinson, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and Iain (M) Banks. Got a bit sad making this collage as Pratchett and Banks both died far too young 😢

Balibee146 This final interview with Banks is a great read... Especially the final section https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview 5y
OriginalCyn620 🙌🏻📚😊 5y
GingerAntics Right? There is just no way to pick just one!!! 5y
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Oftencantdecide
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I'm struggling a bit with what to takeaway from this book- it certainly isn't hopeful or in any way redemptive. Still, I really liked this bleak, disturbing book.

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Oftencantdecide
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The cover on my current read is a bit confusing- at first I didn't see anything weird, but then I noticed the lady seems to have an extra hand. I don't think there's room for a person behind her.

Then I realized she's probably just holding a glove.

#MAKEROOMMAKEROOM

TheBookAddict Lol, definitely creepy but I think you're right about the glove. 8y
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Oftencantdecide
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#feistyfeb- Lots of #shadows on this cover

EvieBee Nicely done! 8y
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Oftencantdecide
Good People | Nir Baram
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The bone she's chewing keeps my reading companion from trying to lick a book for #BrainFuel.
#DogsOfLitsy

SaraFair Cutie. 8y
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NikkiA
Good People | Nir Baram
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Mehso-so

Just as sobering, grim and thought-provoking as you'd expect, but somehow I just didn't like it quite as much as I thought I would...

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NikkiA
Good People | Nir Baram
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Not a bad way to spend a rainy Sunday evening...