Summary
Nir Baram: Good people
When Thomas Heiselberg sees their former housekeeper Hana Stein being followed by a car with two unknown men, he realizes that it is not wise to welcome a Jewish woman into the house, even for a short visit. But Thomas' seriously ill mother is determined: Mrs. Stein will take care of her because he has to attend an important business meeting at the American company he works for. Thomas can't even guess what direction his previously brilliant career as a market research expert will take after that night - Kristallnacht.
In the same fall of 1938, a young woman from Leningrad, Saša, is in a big dilemma: if she betrays her parents and their reactionary friends, who have no escape under Stalin's regime anyway, can she manage to rescue at least her fifteen-year-old brothers from the gulag?
Good people is the first novel of the top Israeli writer of the younger generation, Nir Baram. A skilled storyteller who remarkably portrays his characters and their lives in the historical grind, challenges his readers to answer the question: are there any good people left? Regardless of the answer, Good people and the slightly later written Shadow of the World are evidence that Nir Baram well deserved comparisons with the greats of world literature.
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