With new novel, Israeli author calls for moral revolution

Published: 21 May 2018

Last updated: 5 March 2024

AT THE AGE of 42, Nir Baram has already achieved the status of a leading Israeli writer. He is exceptional in the breadth and complex structure of his novels, whose plots unfold in different time dimensions, are mediated by means of multiple narrators and address political, moral and social issues.

Baram’s new Hebrew-language novel, Yekitzah (At Night’s End), is his first personal work of fiction. It was preceded by The Remaker of Dreams (2006), Good People (2010) and World Shadow (2013).

With their panoplies of characters, diverse locales and range of periods, those three novels recall Russian novels or other classical works, though with the addition of Baram’s distinctive style, rife with descriptions and metaphors.

Baram is a political individual who often participates in discussions about current events on television in the thankless role of the “Tel Aviv leftist.” In the years between the two most recent novels, he conducted a comprehensive tour of the occupied territories and documented his conversations with Palestinians and settlers in A Land Without Borders (English edition, 2017), originally published in weekly instalments in Haaretz and also made into an excellent documentary film.

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Photo: Nir Baram (Meged Gozani)