The betrayers : a novel

Record details

ISBN: 1478956879
ISBN: 9781478956877
ISBN: 1478956844 (library ed.)
ISBN: 9781478956846 (library ed.)
Physical Description: 6 audio discs (7.5 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: New York, NY : Hachette Audio, [2014]
Distributor: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Copyright: ℗2014

General Note:	Title from web page. Compact discs. "Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Christopher Lane.
Summary, etc.:	This book gives us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior, and the besieged couple escapes to Yalta, the faded Crimean resort of Kotler's youth. There, shockingly, Kotler comes face-to-face with the former friend whose denunciation sent him to the Gulag almost forty years earlier. In a whirling twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own moral dilemma in the Israeli army, and the wife who once campaigned to secure his freedom and stood by him through so much. Stubborn, wry, and self-knowing, Baruch Kotler is an aging man grasping for a final passion, and he is drawn inexorably into a crucible that is both personal and biblical in scope.