Chapter from “Good People” appears in the Guardian newspaper:
“Good People is a globe spanning, wide-canvassing novel that probes the depths of one of history’s darkest hours. With riveting narrative force, based on thorough historical research, this extraordinary novel spans World-War II Europe across time and space, boldly sketching an unflinching portrait of men and women and their times. In the extract presented below, our protagonist, Thomas Heiselberg, a Berliner, discovers a Jewish woman violently murdered in his home.”

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Review about World Shadow by Antje Deistler in Deutschlandfunk:

“In präziser, dichter Prosa widmet sich Nir Baram dem ausufernden Thema “Globalisierung”. Und dass daraus nicht die abgegriffen-sprichwörtliche schwere Kost, sondern ein auf höchst intelligente Weise unterhaltsamer Roman geworden ist, hat mit den glänzenden Fähigkeiten des 40-jährigen Schriftstellers zu tun. Stellen Sie sich also eher einen Goldbarren vor als einen Backstein.”

“Dabei will Baram weniger erklären als Fragen aufwerfen. Vieles bleibt absichtlich vage, dunkel und so undurchsichtig wie die vernetzte, globalisierte Welt selbst. Keiner blickt mehr durch, das große Ganze versteht niemand in diesem Buch, und dem Leser geht es konsequenterweise oft genauso. Dass man trotzdem, oder gerade deshalb, gefesselt bis zum niederschmetternden Ende weiterliest, ist der großen Kunst von Nir Baram zu verdanken.”

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“An addictive masterpiece”, Barbara Geschwinde Review in WDR Radio: “Er gibt lediglich Denkanstöße, eingebettet in eine spannende Romanhandlung, die eine kritische Selbstbetrachtung ohne Scham ermöglichen. „Weltschatten“ ist ein fesselndes Meisterwerk des israelischen Schriftstellers Nir Baram; von erschreckender Aktualität und kluger Weitsicht”

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This is maybe the most profound review about “The land beyond the mountains” (Im Land der Verzweiflung) so Far which was written by the prominent Palestinian Writer Ala Hlehel, one of the most important voices in the Palestinian society.

“Documentary literature is supposed to work against this type of writing: To the greatest degree possible, it should nullify the personal desires of the writer, and strive to construct an “objective” reality. Baram may not be 100 percent dedicated to this premise, but he certainly succeeds in providing a stage for that sort of reality, where it (the reality) features as the main protagonist, constructed from situations, interviews, monologues, inner thoughts and descriptions. He also dispenses with the pretense of being an objective journalist, and succeeds in maintaining his artistic style with a clear, characteristic technique. This is one of the book’s major achievements.”

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World Shadow was chosen as one of the recommended novels by the editorial team of the ZDF- “Das Literarische Quartett”
“Nir Baram gilt als große Entdeckung der hebräischen Literatur. Zu Recht… Spannend wie ein Polit-Thriller kritisiert dieser Roman die globale Gier nach Geld und ruft zum Gegenentwurf auf.”

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“Baram narrative anatomises the malleability and fragility of truth, during lives of monstrous brutality and incoherence. Order is ephemeral; chaos is always just a falter away. Meaning and morality are quickly twisted. Unrelenting and undeniable, this is a savage, sometimes horrifyingly comic, autopsy on the warping of once-decent people.”

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3 months after publication the critically acclaimed Non-fiction book by Nir Baram which dominated the best-sellers list in the past 10 weeks is again number 1 in the Best-sellers list.

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With the publication of Good people in Australasia Nir Baram has been a guest in the Sydney Writers’ Festival and among other events participated in the panel “Madness and Malevolence: History Through Fiction” with Marlon James (winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize) and Álvaro Enrigue.

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First review for Good people in Australia was published in the national newspaper “The Australian” by the known reviewer Helen Elliott :”This is not a flawless novel but it is tremendous. I read it in two sittings and I learned a lot. How does a man in his early 30s know how to write like this?”

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Nir Baram was interviewed for TTT culture program, one of the most famous TV programs in Germany. Baram was interviewed in Tel Aviv and East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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Nir Baram non fiction book hit number 1 in the best sellers list.

April 4, 2016EN

3 weeks after publication Nir Barams Non-fiction book about his journey in the West Bank and East Jerusalem hit number 1 in the best seller list in Israel (marked in yellow).

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“Nir Baram is an incorruptible observer and he doesn’t spare himself nor his opposition. He gets very close to the neuralgic points and doesn’t evade potentially politically explosive and delicate confrontations…
Baram’s great achievement is that that he resists condemnations or finger-pointing – despite of desperation on the one hand and cynical indifference on the other side. And he resists to present solutions which no one believes any ways any longer…
On some of the best pages about some of the toughest encounters for which the author has no words he lets you physically experience the absurdity and tragedy of the conflict – a pain that you can tell was the constant companion of the writer during these reportage.”

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“Kann man überhaupt noch einen neuen Blick auf den Konflikt zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern werfen? Es ist doch längst alles gesagt. Die Positionen wirken wie in Stein gemeißelt. Aber sie zeigen mehr und mehr Risse. Nir Baram hat sich die Aufgabe gestellt, sie an der Praxis zu messen. Zu diesem Zweck hat sich der israelische Schriftsteller ein Jahr lang an den neuralgischen Punkten umgeschaut, unter jüdischen Siedlern im Westjordanland und deren unfreiwilligen, palästinensischen Nachbarn.”

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Amos Oz: about Nir Baram Non fiction book “Im Land der Verzweiflung”

February 2, 2016EN

The Author Amos Oz about Nir Baram’s book “Im Land der Verzweiflung”: “Baram produced a painful, even shocking travel book. Although I do not share some of his analysis and his ultimate conclusions, I am still impressed by his sharp eye and his fierce sense of the Israeli Palestinian tragedy. ”

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In 2016 Good People will be published in US, UK and Australia. In its January issue the magazine the White Review publish a chapter from the new English translation – the new year’s eve party in the NKVD branch in Leningrad, in a few hours it will be 1940…

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Nir Baram’s first Nonfiction book, which describes his one-year journey in the West bank and East Jerusalem will be published in Hebrew this February by Am Oved publishing house, and then later that month in Germany by Hanser Verlag: (“Im Land der Verzweiflung”). Baram began his journey a couple of months before the war in Gaza (summer 2014) and finished it in the end of 2015 after the new wave of violence erupts. Some of the chapters were published in Haaretz newspaper.

Baram meets a variety of people over the course of this journey: Palestinian-Israeli citizens trapped behind the Separation Wall in Jerusalem, a real no man’s land where neighborhoods have no municipal rule; children living in Kibbutz Nirim who experienced the war in Gaza, the rockets raining down on their homes; young Palestinians, the close friends of the Palestinian boy who was murdered by Jews. He experiences things like being held-up at occupation checkpoints with Palestinian laborers; meeting ex-prisoners from Hamas who have started a Hebrew language school in Ramallah, and ex-prisoners from Fatah who spent years detained in Israeli jails and who are now promoting a new peace initiative. He gets into a secluded settlers’ stronghold in the West Bank, and near Nablus he comes across two Palestinian boys tied up by the side of the road after allegedly trying to stab Israeli soldiers, only to find that the truth is something entirely different.

As the reportage is being written, both major and minor events take place throughout region: riots in the Temple Mount, the abduction of three Jewish boys, the murder of an Arab boy in Jerusalem, the war in Gaza, the building of a new Palestinian city, elections in Israel, a new wave of violence. Baram returns time and again to Jerusalem, the city where he was born and raised, discovering a huge, sprawling city that stretches to include places he’d never even heard of as a boy; a city where a hushed civil war is in full swing.

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World shadow in 2015 best book lists

January 1, 2016EN

World Shadow was chosen for the 2015 best book lists in :
NRC (Netherlands) De standdard (Belgium), Vanguardia (Spain),
Revista Gatopardo (Mexico), El pais global.
Eslobal (Spanish), DETOUR (Spain).

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World shadow publisher in The Netherlands and Belgium Released a cool and short trailer with many reviews: 5 stars in Nrc, 5 stars in Volkskrant, 5 stars in De Standaard, 4 stars in De morgen.

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de Volskatrat, one of The Netherlands most important newspapers, also publish a 5 stars review about world shadow: “An ambitious novel without borders. This is Hamlet of the 21st Century.”

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Nir Baram talks about the novel WereldSchaduw but also about writing, how you turn a demon into a story, what does it mean to live in our time, Israel, Jews and Arabs history, fear and even hope.
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