The Betrayers

Authors: Bezmozgis, David
Publisher: Harper Perennial
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000
ISBN: 9781443409797, Related ISBNs: 1443409790, 9781443409780, 9781443409797
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 240,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Finalist for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize

A disgraced Israeli politician comes face to face with the man who denounced him to the KGB and sent him to the Gulag.

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.

In prose that is elegant, sly, precise and devastating, David Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness.

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