As a
general rule of thumb; I don’t read novels to be motivated to think. There are
plenty of non-fiction books that have motivated me to ponder a wide range of
things; in The Betrayers, author
David Bezmozgis delivers an elegantly written, thought provoking effort that
will leave you contemplating a wide range of moral and social consequences.
Bezmozgis
wraps his well crafted storyline, some say loosely based on the real life
events surrounding famed Soviet/Jewish dissident Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky,
around a set of creatively drawn, but clearly flawed characters. Along the way
he attempts to tackle questions of morality, right vs. wrong, and character.
This would
likely have been a much more difficult book to read if it weren’t for Bezmozgis’s
tremendous ability to craft winning prose and vivid characters that you can
almost literally wrap your arms around. He delivers a stunningly good book that
will no doubt find its way on to many best of 2014 lists.
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