Adama

A sweeping historical epic following four generations of a single family as they struggle to hold on to their land and each other.

Ruth's family were in Budapest when the Nazis came.

Now Ruth is in Palestine, amid the bare hills inland from Haifa, breaking the rocky soil of an unyielding land before it breaks her.

With her comrades, her fellow kibbutzniks, she will build a better world. There will be green grass, orange trees and pomegranates, a land that is their own and no one else's.

So they till their fields, dig their wells, build their homes and forge a new way of living, fiercely proud of their shared pursuit of a dream.

But as one generation begets another, the dream unravels, twisted into a dark tapestry of secrets and lies; sacrificed for revenge, forbidden love and murder.

About the Author

Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction, cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom prize winner Central Station (2016). He has also written comics (Adler, 2020) and children's books such as Candy (2018) and the forthcoming A Child's Book of the Future (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London.

Reviews

"Adama is an unstoppable masterpiece... Tidhar is a magician, a time-traveler, a historian, a comedian, a raconteur, a subversive, a truth teller and also one of the finest writers around. If history is a nightmare we're all trying to wake up from, then Adama is a trumpet blast that rings out the past and into the future." —Junot Díaz

"Word by word I was drawn deeper and deeper into this incredible book – a story of inheritance, loss, longing and what could have been. Lavie Tidhar's prose is beautiful, his characters lacerating and heartbreaking by turns. I loved it." —Catriona Ward

"A brutal but compassionate and compelling view of the compromises required to sustain a nation" —Maxim Jakubowski

"This violent, shadowy history of a kibbutz family makes for a propulsive, decades-spanning noir saga. I couldn't put it down." —Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Dimensions: 13 x 2.9 x 19.5 cm