Maror - Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar

Category: Contemporary

Tags: Contemporary, Adults, Historical Fiction

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 countrys soula dazzling spread of narrative gunshots across four decades and three continents., It is a true story. All of these things happened.