Binding: Hardcover
Description: A feast for serious fiction readers. Wendy Smith The Washington Post A dead - serious dead - funny no - he - didn't marvel. Joshua Cohen author of The Netanyahus A thrilling witty and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men one of them a U. S. official have been axed to death in Moscow. Viktor a Jewish refusenik is stuck in the Soviet Union because the government has denied his application to leave for Israel; he sits in refusal alongside his wife and their group of intellectuals Jewish and not. But the KGB spots Viktor leaving the murder scene. Plucked off the street he's given a choice: find the murderer or become the suspect of convenience. His deadline is nine days later when Henry Kissinger will be arriving in Moscow. Unsolved ax murders it seems aren t good for politics. A whip - smart often hilarious Cold War thriller Paul Goldberg's The Dissident explores what it means to survive in the face of impossible choices and monumental consequences. To help solve the case Viktor ropes in his community which includes his banned - text - distributing wife a hard - drinking sculptor a Russian priest of Jewish heritage and a visiting American intent on reliving World War II heroics. As Viktor struggles to determine whom to trust he's forced to question not only the KGB's murky motives but also those of his fellow refuseniks and the man he admires above all: Kissinger himself. Immersive unpredictable and always ax - sharp The Dissident is Cold War intrigue at its most inventive. It is an uncompromising look at sacrifice community and the scars of history and identity from an expert storyteller.
Title: The Dissident A Novel
Author(s): Goldberg Paul
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9781250208590
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/6/2023
Category: Historical Fiction