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Little, Brown and Company
October 2014
On Sale: September 23, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 0316284335
EAN: 9780316284332
Kindle: B00HQ2MYI6
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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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