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Bashert
HOFFER AWARD WINNER - TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Karl Lustig is a world-weary consultant and sometime blogger who believes he is in control of his fate. His settled life is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious piece of jewelry, end-product of a chain of events set in motion more than four decades earlier. Rooted in real events and set against the backdrop of Israel's emergence as a nuclear power, BASHERT, Yiddish for fated, is a geopolitical thriller that caroms between continents and bounces between time frames. From MIT to the Middle East, from college days to an uncertain present, it is the story of three people whose lives are intertwined by destiny and by unseen direction. Newly re-edited and reset, the tenth anniversary edition incorporates additional material.
194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 30, 2020
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August 11, 2020
In this first novel of his Homeland Connection series, Lior Samson does one of the many things I've come to expect from this excellent writer -- he brings together a number of well-realized characters, each with his or her own motives, strengths, and weaknesses. Then we, as readers, get to watch the ensuing entanglements, tensions, conflicts, and explosions.
Here the entanglements begin when several of the central characters are students in their late teens and early twenties, brilliant and driven young people full of ambition and high on self-confidence. Or at least on the need to project self-confidence to each other. It's a time in their lives when every choice will have consequences they can't foresee. The tensions and conflicts come when they've urged themselves and each other into a situation that forces them to make decisions and take chances on the fly. Some of the explosions happen then. Some lie in wait for them, years in the future.
"Bashert" is a page-turner with brains and heart.
I'd already read several novels in this series when I decided it was time to read the first one. I was pleased to encounter a few familiar characters, but there's no need to read the series in order -- each book is complete and self-contained.
Here the entanglements begin when several of the central characters are students in their late teens and early twenties, brilliant and driven young people full of ambition and high on self-confidence. Or at least on the need to project self-confidence to each other. It's a time in their lives when every choice will have consequences they can't foresee. The tensions and conflicts come when they've urged themselves and each other into a situation that forces them to make decisions and take chances on the fly. Some of the explosions happen then. Some lie in wait for them, years in the future.
"Bashert" is a page-turner with brains and heart.
I'd already read several novels in this series when I decided it was time to read the first one. I was pleased to encounter a few familiar characters, but there's no need to read the series in order -- each book is complete and self-contained.
March 9, 2024
Great Read!
Intelligent. Very inventive. Refreshingly Original! A great Read. I'm pleased to see that it's the first of in a series.
Intelligent. Very inventive. Refreshingly Original! A great Read. I'm pleased to see that it's the first of in a series.
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