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Maror

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You know sometimes people describe a book as "chick lit" and I hate to see that used in a disparaging way. In any case, for me it's a powerful piece of political storytelling as well as an absolutely rollicking crime novel. As I read, I often checked out names of musicians and political figures to determine who was real and who invented. Tidhar's writing style is a true marvel, with its poetic prose and a knack for painting vivid, otherworldly landscapes that transport you to the heart of the story.

Tidhar draws on his own experience of growing up in Israel and on the nation's turbulent history to tell an authentic story about creating your own identity - Jewish News You may also be interested in. The book constantly touches on the Israeli state, there is a section about how illegal settlements become legal when no-one chases them down (and that this is broadly state policy anyway who cares). Cohen is never our viewpoint character, we waft in and out of the stories of other cops, journalists, criminals, and in one notable segment an actress cum drill instructor cum drug dealer. The book delivers when it comes to nuance and awareness of the conflict in the region, without overtly taking a side and reflecting the raw deal everyone involved gets.The blurb said it would appeal to fans of The White Tiger which I love but it's a very different type of book. I wonder what hasbarists or in any case Zionists will make of the novel, especially at at time where all anti-Zionism is being so forcibly smeared as anti-Semitism. His Howard Hughes is an even sicker, more sexually frustrated figure than the worst depictions of the one-time tech hero. It won the 2012 World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, British Science Fiction Award, and a Kitschie. Either way, if you have any interest in Israel as a nation, or just like the author's style, it's a must read.

It’s police know they can never stamp out organized crime and drug use, so they “control it,” “making” and unmaking kingpins so they can continue to be a force. Tidhar (or his translator) doesn’t try for Ellroy’s hard-bop jazz riffing, but he does have a sense of the hardboiled. As in everything else he does, Tidhar takes the concept of the political thriller to the nth degree: over the four decades of the book, the nation of Israel moves from a nascent country struggling to establish itself to a fully modern society that has moved away from the traditions (family, kibbutzim, loyal army service) and cohesion of its inception becoming, in the process, a thriving part of the international drug business.This was my first time reading anything by Tidhar and it won't be the last, because the writing and the author's attention to detail was fantastic.

Tidhar has created a cast of fascinating characters that tell their own individual stories, which are carefully crafted to interconnect with each another. In an MDMA trance Avi envisions a “new and different future” where he might avoid his terrible fate as one of Cohen’s bad lieutenants. Visitaremos Los Ángeles cuando la cocaína era abiertamente consumida, la jungla colombiana con tropas de las FARC siendo entrenadas por policías israelíes, o entraremos en el Líbano para resolver un problema inmobiliario. If I was Tidhar I would be having words with the publisher because it makes parts of the novel unreadable.I've come to Lavie Tidhar from his fantasy and science fiction work, but while none of that was any great respecter of genre boundaries, this is still very clearly something different. In amongst all the explosions, serial killings, double-crosses and other genre staples, though, I think the most painful I found the reading experience was when the narrative hit the nineties, where in Israel as so many places it seemed like there was a chance of peace, a new world no longer defined by the feuds and hatreds of the past. Tidhar uses real events to frame his multiple narratives, reaching an astonishing climax at a moment of true hope. Maror is a masterpiece of the sacred and the profane and, in using genre fiction so inventively, Tidhar has achieved a literary triumph. There are so many elements to this book that I am still processing it but all I can say is that it is simply stunning and definitely a must read.

Connections are made through chaos rather than conspiracy, but their consequences follow the grim logic of corruption. As Benny, a kidnapped gangster, meditates on his fate, he muses: “Maybe Lebanon was just a turf war that got out of control.

I did enjoy the writing and the most of the storylines but I didn't care if any of the protagonists survived. Whilst I think narratively that the serial killer plot is wrapped up a bit early and the actual ending isn't quite as punchy as I expected it to be, there is no denying that this is pretty brilliant stuff.



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