“One might even say, virtuosic.”

July 7, 2018EN

“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

June 6, 2018EN

“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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Nir Barams Novel : Number 1 in Best Seller list of Friday 25.5.

May 5, 2018EN

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

“A spectacular achievement for one of the most wonderful writers in Israel”

June 6, 2018EN

“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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Nir Baram interview about his new book in Haaretz English Edition

May 5, 2018EN

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”

May 5, 2018EN

“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

” A Very beautiful and nuanced novel”

May 5, 2018EN

” 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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Haaretz supplement selection of best novel: the highest grade.

June 6, 2018EN

“A Jerusalem’s friendship written in blood”

“This is probably Baram’s best novel.”

May 5, 2018EN

“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”

May 5, 2018EN

“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.

“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”

“I am so excited to hold this wonderful novel”

May 5, 2018EN

“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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