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A compact saga of love, duty, family, and sacrifice from a rising star whose fiction is "self-assured, elegant, perceptive ... and unflinchingly honest" (New York Times) These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior, and the besieged couple escapes to Yalta, the faded Crimean resort of Kotler's youth. There, shockingly, Kotler comes face-to-face with the former friend whose denunciation sent him to the Gulag almost forty years earlier. In a whirling twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own moral dilemma in the Israeli army, and the wife who once campaigned to secure his freedom and stood by him through so much. Stubborn, wry, and self-knowing, Baruch Kotler is one of the great creations of contemporary fiction. An aging man grasping for a final passion, he is drawn inexorably into a crucible that is both personal and biblical in scope. In prose that is elegant, sly, precise, and devastating in its awareness of the human heart, David Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness. The Betrayers is a high-wire act, a powerful tale of morality and sacrifice that will haunt readers long after they turn the final page. |
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Escaping his political opponents in a Crimean resort town, disgraced Israeli politician Baruch Kotler runs into a former friend who had him sent to the gulag forty years prior and must reconcile with his betrayer and his own poor choices. |
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Betrayal -- Fiction.
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Jewish men -- Fiction.
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Politicians -- Fiction.
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Forgiveness -- Fiction.
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Betrayal. |
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Forgiveness. |
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Jewish men. |
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Politicians. |
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Crimea (Ukraine) -- Fiction.
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Israel -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- Fiction.
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Israel. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Psychological fiction.
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Suspense fiction.
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Downloadable e-Book.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Bezmozgis, David, 1973- Betrayers New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014 9780316284332 (NjBwBT)bl2014034401 (OCoLC)863595973 |
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9780316370097 : $78.00 |
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0316370096 : $78.00 |
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