Isbn: 9781925240955 - good people (10 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. It's 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 parents' 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 Stalin's 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 Baram's Good People has been showered with praise in many countries. With its acute awareness of the individual amid towering historical landscapes, it is a tour de force: sparkling, erudite, a glimpse into the abyss. 'Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.It expands the borders of young literature and opens new landscapes for it.' Amos Oz.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. It's 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 parents' 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 Stalin's 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 Baram's Good People has been showered with praise in many countries. With its acute awareness of the individual amid towering historical landscapes, it is a tour de force: sparkling, erudite, a glimpse into the abyss.'Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.It expands the borders of young literature and opens new landscapes for it.' Amos Oz Set in Berlin and Leningrad during WWII, a profound exploration of individual lives caught in the tide of history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 432 pages. '[Baram] asks what kind of people would choose to serveempires of falsehoo d with their eyes open and their minds sharp. Not monsters or even cynics, he an swers in a pacey, plot-heavy novel of dramatic events and big ideas, but gifted storytellers fuelled by ordinary motives of love, loyalty or ambition.?Econo mist'Written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.'Amos Oz' One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today.'Haaretz 'Good People has been showered with praise for its elegance prose and scope By putting the types of people who brought about the Second World War under a micr oscope, Baram creates an allegorical warning bell.'The Culture Trip'Pro mising. reflects Baram's tremendous knowledge.'Publishers Weekly'A ri chly textured panorama of German and Russian lifeThis ample novel lives most m emorably through Baram's vignettes of people, dwellings, cities, landscapes and the like that seem to lie, at times, at the periphery of its central concerns.'? ?Sydney Morning Herald'A groundbreakerRiveting reading.'Qantas Maga zine'Astonishingly powerful[a] compelling, important story.?The Li stener, NZ'Precise and evocative, Good People is a riveting glimpse into a different place and a different time.?Canberra Weekly'The tale of ordinary, middle-class lives sucked into a moral maelstrom. It is compulsive and profoundly disturbing.?Sunday Star TimesIt's late 1938. Thomas Heise lberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advert ising company.In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in her parents' literary sal.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. It's 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 parents' 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 Stalin's 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 Baram's Good People has been showered with praise in many countries. With its acute awareness of the individual amid towering historical landscapes, it is a tour de force: sparkling, erudite, a glimpse into the abyss.'Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.It expands the borders of young literature and opens new landscapes for it.' Amos Oz Set in Berlin and Leningrad during WWII, a profound exploration of individual lives caught in the tide of history. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. It's 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 parents' 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 Stalin's 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 Baram's Good People has been showered with praise in many countries. With its acute awareness of the individual amid towering historical landscapes, it is a tour de force: sparkling, erudite, a glimpse into the abyss.'Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.It expands the borders of young literature and opens new landscapes for it.' Amos Oz Set in Berlin and Leningrad during WWII, a profound exploration of individual lives caught in the tide of history. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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