I enjoyed this novel about fictional Soviet dissident Baruch Kotler. As a young man in the Soviet Union, he was denounced by a close friend, tried, and jailed for 13 years, before finally emigrating to Israel and rising to prominence as a politician. Later in life, he takes an unpopular political stand, and when he refuses to succumb to blackmail, his affair with a younger woman is exposed. Kotler flees to a resort town in Crimea where he spent long ago vacations with his family, and he ends up bumping into the man who denounced him so long ago. The story delves into the history and motivations of each character as Kotler struggles with the decision of whether he can forgive his former friend.
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