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Maror: Bloody Tale of the Making of a Nation
Lavie Tidhar Interviewed by Lucian Hudson
Sunday, 2 April 2023
4:00pm
1 hour
Exeter College: Marquee
£7 - £12.50
Israeli-born writer Lavie Tidhar talks about his new detective noir novel, Maror, a bloody tale of the making of a nation, based on real events.
The story of a war for a country’s soul stretches across four decades and three continents. There is a car bomb in Tel Aviv, a diamond robbery in Haifa, civil war in Lebanon, rebel fighters in the Colombian jungle, and a double murder in Los Angeles. Only Cohen knows how they all connect.
This is crime writing in the tradition of Balzac and Dickens and a major achievement, full of sound, fury, drugs and blood . . . An earthquake of a book.’ CrimeTime
Tidhar was brought up on a kibbutz in northern Israel. He is a visiting professor and writer in residence at Richmond University, London. Tidhar is a winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Best British Fiction for his novel, A Man Lies Dreaming. Here he talks to Professor Lucian Hudson, director of advancement, marketing and communications at Durham University, the festival’s strategic advisor and a past chair of Liberal Judaism.
Part of the festival’s programme of Jewish and Hebrew literature and culture.
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