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"Written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity." - Amos Oz"One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today." - Haaretz"A richly textured panorama of German and Russian life ... This 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 Herald'A groundbreaker ... Riveting reading.' - Qantas Magazine'Astonishingly powerful ... [a] compelling, important story.' - The Listener, NZ'Precise and evocative, Good People is a riveting glimpse into a different place and a different time.' - - Canberra Weekly'The tale of ordinary, middle-class lives sucked into a moral maelstrom.



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Nir Baram

Nir Baram was born into a political family in Jerusalem in 1976. His grandfather and father were both Israeli Labor Party ministers. He has worked as a journalist and an editor, and began publishing fiction to when he was twenty-two. Between 1998 and 2006 Nir published three novels, including The Remaker of Dreams which became a bestseller in Israel, was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize and was translated into German.In 2010 Nir Baram's fourth novel Good People appeared - the first historical novel by an Israeli author to tackle World War II from the perspective of collaborators. It is not however a novel about the Holocaust. Set in Berlin and Leningrad between 1938 and 1941, Good People is a tour de force, published across Europe to rave reviews. Text published Good People in English in September 2016 in North America.Nir Baram's most recent book, A Land Without Borders, contains reportage of his travels along the Green Line, originally published in Haaretz. It was published to great acclaim in Israel, where it has already spent time on best-seller lists, and will be released in North America in April 2017. Nir Baram's novel World Shadow is currently being translated into English. Like Good People it was an instant bestseller in Israel, and received rave reviews. Text Publishing will release this novel in English worldwide.The author lives in Tel Aviv with his family.



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