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The betrayers : a novel / David Bezmozgis.

Summary:

These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere 24 hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781443409773
  • Physical Description: 225 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Canadian edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, 2014.

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CatMonthString:october.14
These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where he comes face to face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost forty years earlier. In a mere 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 ethical dilemmas in the Israeli army, and the wife who stood by his side through so much.
Subject: Psychological fiction.
Betrayal > Fiction.
Forgiveness > Fiction.
Politicians > Fiction.
Jewish men > Fiction.
Israel > Fiction.
Soviet Union > Fiction.
Genre: Suspense fiction.

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  • 15 of 15 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rossland Public Library.

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