'Good People' by Nir Baram published in the UK
Today, Thursday 28 September, Good People by Nir Baram is published in the UK by Text Publishing.
Nir Baram’s 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 in the abyss.
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 conversation 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 consequences of the decisions they have made.
Praise for Good People:
““Most alarming is how timely and universal the book’s themes are.” ”
“‘The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity...It expands the borders of literature and opens new landscapes for it’ ”
“‘A bold and brilliant novel that walks the path of greatness to the edge of the literary abyss’”
“‘Baram uses intense geographical plotting and is chillingly eloquent’ ”
About the author:
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 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 Minister’s Award for Hebrew Literature. His most recent book is a work of reportage, Walking the Green Line, which Text will publish in 2017.
