Maror

De: Lavie Tidhar

Narrado por: Levi Goldmeier

A multi-generational saga with cultural and political depth, drawing on the rich, often troubling recent history of Israel, for fans of A History of Seven Killings or The White Tiger.

How do you build a nation?

It takes statesmen and soldiers, farmers and factory workers, of course. But it also takes thieves, prostitutes and policemen.

Nation-building demands sacrifice. And one man knows exactly where those bodies are buried: Cohen, a man who loves his country. A reasonable man for unreasonable times.

A car bomb in the back streets of Tel Aviv. A diamond robbery in Haifa. Civil war in Lebanon. Rebel fighters in the Colombian jungle. A double murder in Los Angeles.

How do they all connect? Only Cohen knows.

Maror is the story of a war for a country's soul–a dazzling spread of narrative gunshots across four decades and three continents.

It is a true story. All of these things happened.

©2022 Lavie Tidhar (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd

Gripping

The book overturned my view of Jewish Israeli society as civilized and, except for its attitude towards Arabs, moral. There is an hilarious episode where the cops carry out a big robbery along with a crime boss. I found the accounts of the historical environments, such as the aftermath of the 1967 war and the war with Lebanon, informative. I found the sections involving Nair (spelling?) from a global-political viewpoint confusing. Or perhaps I am naive not to realize that the flow of guns is no more controllable than the flow of money. I’ll read henceforth the public account of the legal findings of an alleged serial killer with doubt.