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It's late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in her parents' literary salon. They each have grand plans for their lives. Neither of them thinks about politics too much, but after catastrophe strikes they will have no choice. When destiny brings them together, they will have to face the consequences of the decisions they have made. A tour de force from an extraordinary writer.

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'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 30's know how to write like this?'The Australian

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Nir Baram was born in Jerusalem in 1976. He has worked as a journalist, editor, and as an advocate for equal rights for Palestinians. He's the author of five novels. Good People is the first to be translated into English. Baram received the 2010 Prime Minister's Award for Hebrew Literature. Jeffrey Green is a writer and translator living in Israel. He has a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard, and has also published, among other things, a novel in Hebrew, a book of poetry and a book about translation.

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