Nir Baram's generation were bombarded with news about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - the injustices, the wrongdoings, the killings. Over the decades, the horror and despair had become habit - he noticed that people had begun to give up on the possibility of resolution. Yet, as Baram notes, 'the vast majority of Israelis - as well as international onlookers - know next to nothing about life on the West Bank'. And so began his quest to understand the occupation from both sides. The result is an essential and nuanced journey through places and experiences that receive little coverage.
Nir Baram Books
June 2, 1976




The #1 bestselling novel in Israel by Nir Baram, a controversial voice of dissent
Good People
- 422 pages
- 15 hours of reading
It's late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in her parents' literary salon. They each have grand plans for their lives. Neither of them thinks about politics too much, but after catastrophe strikes they will have no choice. When destiny brings them together, they will have to face the consequences of the decisions they have made. A tour de force from an extraordinary writer.
An exciting new English translation of Israel’s #1 bestselling literary novelist Nir Baram