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Fateful choices in a changing world.

Good People could be a captivating read for history buffs who value character exploration. Set in the late 1930s, this novel follows the lives of two individuals from Berlin and Leningrad as they navigate a world in political turmoil. The novel explores how seemingly mundane choices can have far-reaching consequences in a society on the brink of calamity. Baram's writing style is engaging and immersive, making the book difficult to put down.

  • Sapir Prize Nominee for Literature (2010)
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ISBN: 9781911231004
Authors: Nir Baram
Date of Publication: 2016-09-29
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: War, World War II
Goodreads rating: 3.35
(rated by 458 readers)

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[Baram] asks what kind of people would choose to serveempires 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'Written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.'Amos Oz'One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today.'Haaretz'Good People has been showered with praise for its elegance prose and scope By putting the types of people who brought about the Second World War under a microscope, Baram creates an allegorical warning bell.'The Culture Trip'Promising... reflects Baram's tremendous knowledge.'Publishers Weekly'A richly textured panorama of German and Russian lifeThis ample novel lives most memorably through Baram's vignettes of people, dwellings, cities, landscapes and the like that seem to lie, at times, at the periphery of its central concerns.'Sydney Morning HeraldA groundbreakerRiveting reading.Qantas MagazineAstonishingly powerful[a] compelling, important story. The Listener, NZPrecise and evocative, Good People is a riveting glimpse into a different place and a different time. Canberra WeeklyThe tale of ordinary, middle-class lives sucked into a moral maelstrom. It is compulsive and profoundly disturbing. Sunday Star TimesIt'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 elaborating 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.Good People is a tour de force that has been showered with praise in many countries.Nir Baram was born into a political family in Jerusalem in 1976. 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 in Hebrew. Several have been translated into more than ten languages and received critical acclaim around the world. In 2010 he received the Prime Minister's Award for Hebrew Literature."
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Fateful choices in a changing world.

Good People could be a captivating read for history buffs who value character exploration. Set in the late 1930s, this novel follows the lives of two individuals from Berlin and Leningrad as they navigate a world in political turmoil. The novel explores how seemingly mundane choices can have far-reaching consequences in a society on the brink of calamity. Baram's writing style is engaging and immersive, making the book difficult to put down.

  • Sapir Prize Nominee for Literature (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.