An interview in the Belgium Magazine Humo with the writer Mark Schaevers : “Dit keer brengt hij een gegarandeerde topper van 2015 mee: Wereldschaduw…‘Wereldschaduw’ is een panoramische roman over onze hyperkapitalistische tijden, waarin drie verhaallijnen even innig met elkaar verweven zijn als de werelddelen in de globale economie. Een geestig boek van een overtuigend stilist die een groot onderwerp te pakken heeft: wat kan het nog beletten om wereldwijd de lezersharten te veroveren?”

In the first week of September World Shadow will hit the book stores in the Netherlands and Belgium. Nir Baram Will come to the Netherlands in the beginning of September and will be in Maunscripta festival,Eilandfestival in Antwerp, and many other events during September.

Acompanied by a photographer and a desire to hear the voices that are not normally featured in the media, award-winning novelist Nir Baram journeyed extensively around Israel and the West Bank during the past year. The chapters that constitute “Walking the Green Line” paint a complex political picture. This is the 7 chapter: is a religious peace possible? what does it means? Baram visits Otniel yeshiva and The Field, Gush Etzion bloc, Winter 2015

Nir Baram writes: well, ten days after my son Daniel was born I did this conversation with the writer PAUL AUSTER as part of a special newspaper project for our Book Week. It was something we scheduled a long time before it actually happened. Obviously, I was not ready and confused, but Auster was really understanding and generous and the entire first part of the conversion was about fatherhood! The project was edited by a great literary journalist and editor – Elad Zeret, and it turned out wonderful, and it includes many interesting writers (Margaret Atwood ). Soon our conversation will be available in English. The headline was: “Does fatherhood make you a better writer?”

The popular culture website and TV station ‘The Guilty Code” made a TV interview with Nir Baram :”The Best novel of the year arrived to Mexico”

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A.B Yehoshua, one of Israel most celebrated authors, writes to Haaretz about Nir Barams reportage “walking the green Line”: “And even though Baram has firm political and ideological views to which, with civic courage, he voices in every public platform, in these articles he consistently quiets the political and ideological passion within him so as to become a most attentive listener, one who, with noteworthy patience and moderation, records things that under other circumstances would surely make his blood boil. As a writer, he brings a richness and linguistic precision to these articles, which make it impossible to avoid contemplating the absurd situation that we continue to fashion with our own hands.

“At the stage we have now reached, Nir Baram’s effort is of particular importance, as he puts his great literary talent to use in an attempt to break through Israeli denial.”

An article in NEXOS, one of Mexico most important Magazines:

“While reading Nir Baram I thought of Dostoevsky’s Demons, and how one passes through pages and pages without knowing what is the question of the novel. However, at the end, I discovered to my surprise that there is nothing more fascinating than reflecting on the theme of “Demons”. Something similar happens to me with Nir Baram. I know the comparison is risky… Baram bursts onto the literary scene with novels written in a way that confronts readers with their deeds, novels that engage in dialogue with the narrative of the early and mid-twentieth century while demanding a reflection on the present and future. Two of them, “Good people” and “world Shadow” have captivated the world of literature.

An article in the Mexican newspaper Excelsior: “Baram one of the most brilliant writers in the world today. World shadow is a brilliant novel that from different plots and angles shows us the whole world”

Radio W in Mexico about world shadow: “An epic novel about democracy the human spirit, violence and your own beliefs: A novel that will make you think!”

A review in Mleinio, one of Mexico most important newspapers: “This novel is so brilliant and powerful, and the music of the language is so pure and marvelous that i almost cried when i finished it. Baram is one of the best writers in the world today”

Babelia the prestigious culture supplement of El Pais which appears every Sunday published a one page project about Nir Baram. A profile and a review about “world shadow”: “Nir Baram leads an new generation in the Israeli literature with a total different approach to literature. World Shadow is a  huge and ambitious fresco that departs from the canons of Israeli literature.”

Nir Baram has launch “World shadow” in Mexico with a visit there and interviews to Mexican TV, Radio and Newspares. Also he participate in a special evening about the novel with the Mexican writers Jorje Volpi and  Maruan Soto Antaki

Acompanied by a photographer and a desire to hear the voices that are not normally featured in the media, award-winning novelist Nir Baram journeyed extensively around Israel and the West Bank during the past year. The chapters that constitute “Walking the Green Line” paint a complex political picture, as Baram talks to settlers and kibbutzniks, politicians and activists, ex-prisoners and soldiers, those born after the occupation began and those who remember Israel before June 1967. The major events of the past 12 months form a vivid background to “Walking the Green Line.” Over the course of the next few months, Haaretz will be publishing the chapters of “Walking the Green Line,” starting with the author’s visit to Balata refugee camp.

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An interview with ERNEST ALÓS for El Periódico: “Nir baram took a great risk by writing such a novel…”

“World Shadow’ may be the most impressive novel that was written about this era of discontent. And now we are not talking just about the great characters but about psychology, politics, and violence.”

A review by Mercedes Monmany in ABC: “Nir Baram is the great revelation of the Hebrew language, one of the most important novels of our times” ABC

In one of Spain’s most important newspapers LaVanguardia there was a substantive review about “La sombra del mundo, “a grand political novel, a novel that shakes our comfortable way of thinking”

“Gran novela política, inteligente, que se enfrenta al sistema y a nuestra conformidad cómoda… a Sombra del Mundo pone el dedo en muchas de las llagas de nuestras vidas. Vaya por delante que se trata de un libro complejo y prolijo, profuso en los datos y descripciones, lejos de cualquier esquematismo, donde todos son buenos y malos segun a veces la hora del dia.”

Nir Baram will be in Spain between 18.5-22.5 to launch “La Sombra del Mundo”. He will hold events in Barcelona, Seville and Madrid as well as interviews and book singing events. Also will participate: The writer and editor Valerie Miles and the translator and Professor Ana Maria Bejarano  (Barcelona) the translator Isabel Marin (Seville) the writer and critic  Mercedes Mommany (Madrid).

“An epic novel written with irony, humor and boldness,  a great novel that warns from the dangers that threaten the freedom of the human beings.”