Nir Baram gave an exclusive Interview to I24 TV which is broadcast in 70 countries about “An Night’s End”, the rave reviews to the novel, and the personal journey which led him to write this book.

 

 

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Am Oved publishing House has publish in Haaretz literary section a one page advisement with just some of the great Reviews “At Nights End” has received.

“Baram’s most fascinating and moving book… A Beautiful and wonderful Novel.”

(Esti Adivi Shoshan, Ha’aretz)

“A spectacular accomplishment by one of the most wonderful Hebrew writers.”

(Alona Kimchi, Israel Today)

“The combination of honesty and lies, which the novel adapts from the tragic pact between the two boys, allows the words to accrue, to turn into pictures and scenes, into fine prose.”

(Yoni Livneh, Yediot Aharonot)

“A Very good novel… Everything is described with an honesty that lacks malice, under whose feet life’s moments of beauty are never trampled… One might say : Virtuosic.”

(Eran Horowitz, Walla!)

“Baram’s best novel. A wonderful and shocking book about the inability to talk, about a reality devoid of meaning, and about literature as the only way to live.”

(Maya Sela, Kan TV network)

“An impressive, profound, accurate book that touches the nerve-endings of emotion.”

(A.B. Yehoshua, Ha’aretz)

“A beautiful and sensitive novel. A complex and delicate relationship that begins in childhood and stretches out over many years.”

(Ayelet Klein Cohen, Israel Today)

“A rare book in Israel’s literary landscape… Depicts the past in the most profound way without a shred of romanticizing.”

(Dror Mishani, Maariv)

“One of the most beautiful bildungsroman books I have read. A novel about a profound and moving friendship, about pain and about life… Rush out to read it.”

(Keren Agmon, Saloona)

“In my opinion this is Baram’s finest book.”

(Kobi Meidan, Kan TV network)

“A novel that is at times poetry and at times a cutting wind… Only on truly rare occasions, with the same commitment and hunger, as in this unique book, do we stand facing ourselves, facing life, without lying.”

(Author Leah Aini)

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“Literary criticism must answer one simple question: is the book good, and why? This is worth reiterating when approaching a novel like this one, which has only just emerged on the contemporary literary scene and has already garnered universal praise. Is this book good, then? Yes, it is good, even very good. But mostly, it is readable. Its style is uniform and clear and its insights are refreshing, at times cruel, but never descend into sentimental or histrionic confessions. Baram’s honesty is not cruel, and life’s moments of beauty are not trampled beneath its feet. Nevertheless, the book does contain plenty of grief, tedium, sorrow and decay. Yes, it is a novel whose range of emotions and conditions is remarkably broad–one might even say, virtuosic.”

Review in Walla by Eran Horowiz.

 

 

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“This choice is also realized in this wonderful and beautiful novel” Review in Haaretz literature and culture supplement by Esti Adivi Shoshan:
“In Baram’s new, fascinating and touching novel he narrows the worldwide perspective that ruled his previous works and focuses the story on a small neighborhood in Jerusalem. The story takes place in the 1980’s and tells the tale of two friends, two young men – depicted in three stages of life: late childhood while they study in the sixth grade, the last year of high school and adulthood – when the narrator is in his 30s, a married man, and a father.
The dual ending scene of the novel is told on the one hand by the narrator as a Tel Avivian young father that strolls every afternoon with his toddler son down Bugrashov street that opens up to the beach. And on the other hand, a happy scene of the narrator’s early childhood, where he lies with his brother and parents on a mat in the living room, while laughing and cuddling. This scene is a proof of a successful “awakening” process that the narrator has gone through and of the blissful parting from the picture of a father that sits his kid on a nest of wasps. The open sea and the mat on which the family lies down on as one organic body indicates choosing the now, choosing that which is tangible, choosing the daily duties and responsibilities of life. This choice is also realized in this wonderful and beautiful novel.”
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“A spectacular achievement for one of the most wonderful writers in Israel”

International writer Alona Kimhi writers about “AT Night’s End” in the news paper “Israel Today”

 

 

 

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Haaretz supplement selection of best novel: the highest grade.

June 6, 2018EN

“A Jerusalem’s friendship written in blood”

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Nir Barams Novel : Number one in the Best Seller list in fiction.

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” A Very beautiful and nuanced novel, a complex and gentle, an  investigation of friendship between to friends since their childhood and until they are grown man”

“Israel Today” newspaper

 

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Nir Baram gave a substantive interview to Haaretz about his new novel and many other issues.

 

An Acclaimed Israeli Novelist Calls for a Moral Revolution

Nir Baram, whose new novel, ‘At Night’s End,’ is his most personal work yet, talks about the death of his mother and the suicide of his best friend, and what he has learned from interviewing settlers and Palestinians

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” (English title: “At Night’s End”; Am Oved Publishers), 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….

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“One of the best coming of age novels I have ever read. A beautiful novel that describes the journey of a boy into adolescence in the midst of life’s turmoil – with the threatening progress of his mother’s disease, his longing for his estranged brother and his busy father, and above all his friendship with his best friend from childhood until they are both grown men.”

 

Review in Salona by Keren Agmon

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“I am so excited to hold this wonderful novel. while reading it I realized that this time you have put your heart in amongst the lines. In my opinion, it is a novel about two people who want to see the world through the same eyes, through the same gaze – but as they grow up they realize it is simply impossible.”

 

Gal Gabay   – TV Chanel 10

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“At Nights End by Nir Baram deals with the inability to talk, an inability that is often the creator of literature. The novel deals with living in the imagination and with the painful awakening which is a crucial part of growing up. The other option is not to live. Reading this novel is like participating in a boxing match in which the hero and the reader are trying to escape the claws of the past and find a meaning in everyday life. Truthfully, it’s not easy to box while trying to live. Probably Baram’s best novel”
Maya Sela, National radio :”Inside the books”
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“Maybe its not a surprise that Baram’s new book is wonderful. A story about how two man that mature together and tries to forget their past, only they can’t . A very personal novel by Baram that deals here with the death of his mother and his best friend.

Neri Livne Haaretz

 

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“A marvelous novel, a deep and unsettling investigation of friendship”

May 5, 2018EN

“A marvelous novel, a deep and unsettling investigation of friendshi. This time Nir Baram wrote about a new subjects: life and death, childhood and friendship. a must read novel”

Rino Tzror: Galey Tzhal Radio.

 

 

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“An unforgettable story of love, friendship, family and death.”  

May 5, 2018EN

The great Israeli  writer A.B Yehoshua about “At Night’s Eed: “One of the best coming of age novels I have read in years. Beautiful, touching, written with the integrity of a true writer. An unforgettable story of love, friendship, family and death.”

 

Yehoshua is the winner of numerous international prizes, The New York Times called him the “Israeli Faulkner”

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Nir Baram new novel “At Night’s End” will be published in Israel on 1/5/2018

April 4, 2018EN

Nir Baram new novel “At Night’s End” will be published in Israel on 1/5/2018 by Am Oved publishing house.

A writer wakes up in a hotel room in an unfamiliar city. His clothes are muddy and he doesn’t know how long he’s been lying in bed. He came to participate in a literary festival that is long over—why is he still there? When he desperately attempts to reconstruct his lost days, he learns that he told people at the festival that his best friend had died.
Except that his friend is still alive.

This disorienting state launches the story of a profound friendship that begins in childhood and follows the intertwining life paths of two men. Over the decades, their journeys diverge and reconverge, as the imaginary worlds of their early days gradually fade but never vanish.

The protagonist, Yonatan, stays on in Mexico City, resisting the unavoidable return to his wife and infant son back home in Tel Aviv. Faced with the terrifying certainty that his closest friend, Yoel, is going to die, he struggles to preserve his sanity. But why does the impending death—which may or may not in fact happen—frighten him so much that he opts to stay in a foreign country far away from his family? And Why doesn’t he believe he can go back to Israel and save his childhood friend?

The narrative travels smoothly back and forth in time to depict a powerful friendship, its inevitable and painful dissolution, and the waning power of youthful imagination. Taking place in Israel, the events unfold under the constant shadow of animosity between Arabs and Jews, and the societal demand that boys be men. Above all, this is a universal story of family and love, friendship and fatherhood, the savage forces of memory, imagination and writing, and the life one leads after losing a loved one—a life that can still prove surprising.

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