The betrayers : a novel
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
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- ISBN: 1443409774
- ISBN: 9781443409773
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Physical Description
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225 pages - Edition 1st Canadian ed.
- Publisher Toronto : HarperCollins, [2014]
- Copyright ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | Shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.99 |