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Lavie Tidhar was born just ten miles from Armageddon and grew up on a kibbutz in northern Israel. He has since made his home in London, where he is currently a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Richmond University. He won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Best British Fiction, was twice longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger Award and the Rome Prize. He co-wrote Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction, and is a columnist for the Washington Post.ADAMA is an unstoppable masterpiece ... Tidhar is a magician, a time-traveler, a historian, a comedian, a raconteur, a subversive, a truth teller and also one of the finest writers around. If history is a nightmare we’re all trying to wake up from, then ADAMA is a trumpet blast that rings out the past and into the future.
- Junot Díaz,
Word by word I was drawn deeper and deeper into this incredible book – a story of inheritance, loss, longing and what could have been. Lavie Tidhar's prose is beautiful, his characters lacerating and heartbreaking by turns. I loved it.
- Catriona Ward,
A brutal but compassionate and compelling view of the compromises required to sustain a nation
- Maxim Jakubowski,
This violent, shadowy history of a kibbutz family makes for a propulsive, decades-spanning noir saga. I couldn’t put it down.
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia,
The prolific Tidhar [is] fast emerging as the leader of a new wave of Israeli literature, thanks to his risky, exhilarating experiments with tone and genre... Tidhar's imagination is both Old Testament through and through, and sick with a 21st-century disenchantment
Daily Mail
A brilliantly unsentimental portrayal, full of moral murkiness and tarnished hopes, with small, half-glimpsed bursts of joy
- Antonia Senior, The Times
As a study of biblical comeuppance, the land and the blood have the last say. I recommend Adama as an instructive primer for today's generation of Israeli politicians. There are, indeed, lessons to be learned
Jewish Chronicle
<p><b>PRAISE FOR <i>MAROR</i></b>: <br /><br />'A sprawling epic set across four decades, and an audacious account of the underbelly of nation-building... Spectacular... Fascinating... Astonishing... <i>Maror</i> is a masterpiece of the sacred and the profane... Tidhar has achieved a literary triumph' Jake Arnott, Guardian. <br /><br />'Some write in ink, others in song, Tidhar writes in fire... <i>Maror</i> is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece, immense in its sympathies, alarming in its irreverences and altogether exhilarating' Junot Díaz. <br /><br />'<i>Maror</i> blends the page-turning wit of a hard-boiled detective noir with the stirring intrigue of a multi-national political epic. An ambitious achievement that weaves a tapestry of both story and statement' Kevin Jared Hosein. <br /><br />'Radiant with [...] the richly nuanced complexity and style of Marlon James' <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i>... Will catch your breath as it presents the history of Israel from unique points of view, with dazzling multi-generational scope'</p>
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<b>A Times 'best historical fiction novel' for 2023':</b> A novel of immense power
The Times
A brilliant follow-up to <i>Maror ... </i>Extraordinary storytelling
Tim Pears