Good People

[Baram] asks what kind of people would choose to serve empires of falsehood with their eyes open and their minds sharp. Not monsters or cynics, he answers in a pacey, plot-heavy novel of dramatic events and big ideas, but gifted storytellers fueled by ordinary motives of love, loyalty or ambition. Economists 'Written with great talent, momentum and ingenuity.' Amos Oz 'One of the most intriguing writers in Israeli literature today.' Haaretz 'Good People has been praised for its elegant prose and scope. By examining the types of people who brought about the Second World War, Baram creates an allegorical warning bell.' The Culture Trip 'Promising... reflects Baram's tremendous knowledge.' Publishers Weekly '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 A groundbreaker. Riveting reading. Qantas Magazine An astonishingly powerful, compelling, important story. The Listener, NZ Precise and evocative, Good People offers a riveting glimpse into a different place and time. Canberra Weekly The tale of ordinary, middle-class lives sucked into a moral maelstrom. It is compulsive and profoundly disturbing. Sunday Star Times.