The Betrayers. By David Bezmozgis. Little, Brown and Company; 240 pages; $26. Viking; £12.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHIS compelling second novel by David Bezmozgis takes place in Crimea in August 2013, before the province was annexed by Russia. Baruch Kotler, a famous Soviet Jewish dissident turned Israeli politician, has fled to Yalta with his young mistress after an attempt in Jerusalem to blackmail him.Kotler can flee his enemies in Israel, but he cannot escape his past. He has been haunted for decades by his nemesis, Chaim Tankilevich. The two men were once friends, secretly studying Hebrew in Moscow. But Tankilevich was also a KGB agent, spying on the gatherings. He denounced Kotler in an article in Izvestia, a Russian newspaper, and Kotler was sent to prison for 13 years.Both men seek a kind of redemption when they meet in Yalta, apparently by chance, although more powerful...
from The Economist: Books and arts http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21620055-david-bezmozgis-confirms-his-growing-reputation-another-yalta-conference?fsrc=rss|bar
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