The Betrayers

The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis is a searing novel about a man whose principles are tested to the utmost extremes
'Impressive . . . alive to how reversals of fortune change individuals' Sunday Times
In a small crumbling resort in the Crimea, two men meet after many years apart. Kotler has fled Jerusalem with his young lover after taking a decision which has now cost him everything. Yet the other, Vladimir, would rather discuss the distant past: