- Sapir Prize for Literature 2010 · Shortlist
Good People
אנשים טובים · Anashim tovim
Nir Baram (ניר ברעם, born 1976)
Translated by Jeffrey Green
English editions
In EnglishGood People
Text Publishing · Australia · 2 May 2016 · Paperback · 421 pages
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Berlin, 1938: Thomas Heiselberg, an ambitious adman who changes allegiances as easily as faces, sees that his salesman's genius will now have to work for Hitler's state. Leningrad, the same year: Alexandra Weissberg, whose Jewish father is a scholar, realises the secret police will soon come for her parents and cannot be stopped; to shield her two younger brothers she agrees to collaborate with the very apparatus that is crushing her family. Each tells themselves they are doing the least harm possible. As Germany and the USSR edge toward war, the two cross paths and draw up a bold scheme, and the encounter makes them face what their compromises have cost.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 511 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, Russia, 1938–1941
- First published
- 2010 by Am Oved
- Author's age
- 34 when first published
- ISBN
9789651321733 (original)
9781925240955 (Text Publishing, Australia)