Maror av Lavie Tidhar

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<b>''A masterpiece of the sacred and the profane... A literary triumph.'' Jake Arnott, <i>Guardian</i></b>How do you build a nation?It takes statesmen and soldiers, farmers and factory workers, of course. But it also takes thieves, prostitutes and policemen.Nation-building demands sacrifice. And one man knows exactly where those bodies are buried: Cohen, a man who loves his country. A reasonable man for unreasonable times.A car bomb in the back streets of Tel Aviv. A diamond robbery in Haifa. Civil war in Lebanon. Rebel fighters in the Colombian jungle. A double murder in Los Angeles.How do they all connect? Only Cohen knows.<i>Maror</i> is the story of a war for a country''s soul ¿ a dazzling spread of narrative gunshots across four decades and three continents.It is a true story. All of these things happened.<b>Praise for <i>Maror</i>: </b>''A bloody beast of a book.'' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b> ''This is crime writing in the tradition of Balzac and Dickens and a major achievement, ful