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

The prolific Tidhar [is] fast emerging as the leader of a new wave of Israeli literature, thanks to his risky, exhilarating experiments with tone and genre... Tidhar's imagination is both Old Testament through and through, and sick with a 21st-century disenchantment

Daily Mail

A brilliantly unsentimental portrayal, full of moral murkiness and tarnished hopes, with small, half-glimpsed bursts of joy

Antonia Senior, The Times