Maror

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This turning point is invoked viscerally as the kids head into Tel Aviv where their despair turns into anger and they set upon an Orthodox man they find in the street. In conclusion, "Maror" is a masterclass in speculative fiction, and Lavie Tidhar's talent shines brightly in every page. She's eventually pulled into Cohen's web and witnesses awful murders in the service of keeping the Israeli mob on the right path.

He is also editor-in-chief of the World SF Blog , and in 2011 was a finalist for a World Fantasy Award for his work there. That serial killer pops back up too as connective tissue, Cohen was related to the first victim and therefore has a personal stake in how or who is fitted up for the crime.Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land (2013), a must-read for the liberal bourgeoisie both in and outside Israel, was another. Benny nurses this against Nir for decades, and eventually he does kill Nir, almost dispassionately - a balancing of the books - at the end of Nir's mercenary story.

Here we get an episodic, not-quite-linear story of several loosely connected figures over a 35 year period who represent a coarsening – if not deadening – of the dream of Israel as a nation founded on idealism.

This is the first fifty pages of the book, and suddenly we are whipped thirty years back in time to the early seventies were Cohen is a fresh-faced cop and there might be a serial killer on the loose.