PRAISE FOR WORLD SHADOW

‘Baram is the best writer in his generation with no comparison.’ A. B. Yehoshua

‘The Israeli Left’s last novel…a story of power, the battle for and against it, and the inevitable corruption of all causes in the late-capitalist world.’ +972 Magazine

‘A tremendous description of the evils, passions and hopes that shape the world today. One of the most ambitious novels I have ever read…You can hear in World Shadow echoes of Underworld by Don DeLillo.’ El País

‘May be the most impressive novel that has been written about this era of discontent.’ El Mundo

‘One of the most important novels of our time. You read it and think of Balzac.’ ABC.es

‘For this novel, Baram deserves a place at the front line of modern literature.’ NRC Handelsblad

‘A boundlessly ambitious novel. This is the Hamlet of the twenty-first century.’ Volkskrant

‘The reader is captivated until the crushing end, thanks to Nir Baram’s great art…A masterpiece.’ Deutschlandfunk

‘Some readers will feel this great novel predicted many aspects of Trump’s rise, and they would not be mistaken.’ Österreichischer Rundfunk

‘The best novel Baram has written so far, a brilliant literary achievement. World Shadow is asking the most important questions of our time.’ Israel Today

‘A mind-blowing epic that raises big questions about the human spirit, democracy, morals and violence.’ Haaretz

PRAISE FOR AT NIGHT’S END

Shortlisted for the 2019 Sapir Prize

‘Never less than constantly gripping…a magnificent elegy to friendship and devastating loss.’ Jewish Book Council

‘This book will crawl under your skin and will not let go.’ NRC Handelsblad

‘Baram’s most fascinating and moving book…A beautiful and wonderful novel.’ Haaretz

‘Skilfully, Baram plunges into the world in between: between life and death, childhood, adolescence and adulthood, between being a child and being a father, love and hate, day and night, intoxication and sobriety.’ Aargauer Zeitung

‘Baram’s novels have the flair, emotional depth and wealth of ideas of the great nineteenth-century Russian authors. A complex, deeply felt but never sentimental bildungsroman…A wonderful tribute to people dearest to him.’ De Tijd

‘A spectacular accomplishment by one of the most wonderful Hebrew writers.’ Israel Today

‘The combination of honesty and lies, which the novel adapts from the tragic pact between the two boys, allows the words to accrue, to turn into pictures and scenes, into fine prose.’ Yedioth Ahronoth

‘A rare book in Israel’s literary landscape…Depicts the past in the most profound way without a shred of romanticising.’ Maariv

‘One of the most beautiful bildungsroman books I have read. A novel about a profound and moving friendship, about pain and about life…Rush out to read it.’ Saloona

PRAISE FOR GOOD PEOPLE

‘The novel is written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity… It expands the borders of literature to reveal new landscapes.’ Amos Oz

‘Quite possibly, Dostoyevsky would write like this if he lived in Israel today.’ Frank furter Allgemeine Zeitung

‘Good People is a masterful metaphysical novel written by a true artist.’ Livres Hebdo

‘One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today.’ Haaretz

‘[Baram] asks what kind of people would choose to serve… empires of falsehood with their eyes open and their minds sharp. Not monsters or even cynics, he answers in a pacey, plot-heavy novel of dramatic events and big ideas, but gifted storytellers fuelled by ordinary motives of love, loyalty or ambition.’ Economist

‘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 thirties 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.’ Sydney Morning Herald

‘Chillingly captures the terrors and tensions of life under Stalin and Hitler. The chapters set in Russia are particularly effective, carrying the suspense of a spy thriller. Nir Baram explores the frightening speed and ease with which ordinary people become functionaries in totalitarian societies.’ Times Literary Supplement