Good People
β Scribed by Baram, Nir
- Book ID
- 108877180
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 891 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781925240955
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β¦ Synopsis
Itβs 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 parentsβ 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 Stalinβs 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.
Nir Baramβs Good People is a tour de force that has been showered with praise in many countries. It reminds us how fiction can present acute moral awareness of the individual in the context of towering historical...
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