These Are the Names

A moody, atmospheric literary thriller and a timeless tale of migration (The Guardian), from one of Europe s biggest-selling authors
Despite its Biblical title which comes from the opening lines of the Book of Exodus award-winning novelist Tommy Wieringa has crafted perhaps his most timely book [...]
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A moody, atmospheric literary thriller and a timeless tale of migration (The Guardian), from one of Europe s biggest-selling authors
Despite its Biblical title which comes from the opening lines of the Book of Exodus award-winning novelist Tommy Wieringa has crafted perhaps his most timely book yet, as he traces two stories doomed to collide.
In one, we follow a group of starving, near-feral Eurasian refugees on a harrowing quest for survival; in the other, we follow Pontus Beg, a policeman from a small border town on the steppe, as he investigates the death of a rabbi, one of the town s two remaining Jews.
What follows is a gripping saga in which the two stories race toward each other, and Beg will be shaken to his core by what each one reveals about man s dark nature, and the possibility or impossibility of his own redemption. A virtual parable for our times, These Are the Names offers a suspenseful reading of a crisis that continues to dominate headlines, and simultaneously explores the enduring questions of faith, identity, and what it means to be home. "