Good People

'Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today.' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'Written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity...it expands the borders of literature to reveal new landscapes.' Amos Oz 'One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today.' Haaretz 'Good People rewards the reader's patience while mining a tragic sense of irony that extends all the way to its title.' Big Issue 'Baram uses intense geographical plotting and is chillingly eloquent...[Good People] is tremendous. I read it in two sittings and I learned a lot. How does a man in his early 30s know how to write like this?' Australian 'Good People is a richly textured panorama of German and Russian life...This ample novel lives most memorably 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.' Age/Sydney Morning Herald 'A groundbreaker...Riveting reading.' Qantas Magazine 'Good People is the tale of ordinary, middle-class lives sucked into a moral maelstrom. It is compulsive and profoundly disturbing.' Sunday Star Times 'A taut, compelling novel that's hard to put down...By creating an imaginary situation, Baram also refreshes the discourse away from cliches and stereotypes. It shows how people who were indifferent to politics can be sucked into its grasp.' ANZ LitLovers 'Precise and evocative, Good People is a riveting glimpse into a different place and a different time.' Canberra Weekly 'Astonishingly powerful...[A] compelling, important story.' New Zealand Listener