Full name: The Betrayers: A Novel

Author: David Bezmozgis Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316284332 9780316284356 0316284335 0316284351

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, in an unexpected turn of events, he comes face-to-face with the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost 40 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, 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. Similar books: Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus Look for Me by Edeet Ravel The Conversion by Aharon Appelfeld The Covenant by Naomi Ragen The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua The Lover by A. B. Yehoshua Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant The Glory by Herman Wouk The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman Pravda by Edward Docx Drawing In the Dust by Zoe Klein The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins