The Betrayers

Състояние: Отлично
Издателство: Viking
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 135
Височина (мм): 215
Дебелина (мм): 20
Корици: Меки

The magic of fiction is that it is deeply caring about imaginary strangers, and Bezmozgis is a magician’
Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project

‘This unforgettable novel squanders no words in its brilliant, deft depictions of love, of memory, of compassion - and, ultimately, despite its title, of loyalty’
Edith Pearlman, finalist for the National Book Award for Binocular Piston.

‘In this taut, fierce, forensically insightful novel, David Bezmozgis explores the frictions between goodness and kindness, public and private virtue, forgiveness and forgetting. Compulsive and profound’
A. D. Miller, Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Snowdrops

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Two men meet on a park benchin Jerusalem: a politician, on the eve of a controversial stand against his government, and a Mossad agent, sent to dissuade him with the threat of blackmail. Neither backs down.

Escaping the furore he’s unleashed, the politician and his lover head to Crimea and a resort on the Black Sea to lie low. But the fierce battle between political principles and personal loyalties has followed them to this faded Russian backwater, and a shocking encounter awaits them.

In its depiction of a man whose principles are tested to the utmost extremes, The Betrayer cuts to the very heart of our troubled times.

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About the Author

David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973 and emigrated with his parents to Toronto in 1980. His first novel, The Free World, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His collection Natasha and Other Stories was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Regional Prize for First Book. In 2010 he was selected as one of the New Yorkers ‘20 under 40’, celebrating the twenty most promising fiction writers under the age of forty. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages.