David Bezmozgis

The Betrayers David Bezmozgis Unabridged edition

A compact saga of love, duty, family, and sacrifice from a rising star whose fiction is "self-assured, elegant, perceptive . . . and unflinchingly honest" --New York Times

These incandescent pages give us one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When his political opponents expose an affair with a mistress decades his junior, Baruch flees the scandal for Yalta, only to encounter the former friend who denounced him to the KGB decades earlier.

In one day, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with his betrayers and with those whom he has betrayed, including a son facing his own ethical dilemmas in the army and the wife who stood by his side through so much.

In prose that is elegant, sly, and devastating, Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness.