{"product_id":"9780316284363","title":"The Betrayers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compact saga of love, duty, family, and sacrifice from a rising star whose fiction is \"self-assured, elegant, perceptive . . . and unflinchingly honest\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese incandescent pages give 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStubborn, wry, and self-knowing, Baruch Kotler is one of the great creations of contemporary fiction. An aging man grasping for a final passion, he is drawn inexorably into a crucible that is both personal and biblical in scope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn prose that is elegant, sly, precise, and devastating in its awareness of the human heart, David Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness. \u003ci\u003eThe Betrayers\u003c\/i\u003e is a high-wire act, a powerful tale of morality and sacrifice that will haunt readers long after they turn the final page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125141192944,"sku":"9780316284363","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316284363_p0.jpg?v=1769916641","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316284363","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}