Waking Lions - Hardcover

Gundar-Goshen, Ayelet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782271562 ISBN 13: 9781782271567

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2016

Synopsis

Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene.

It is a decision that changes everything.

Because the dead man's wife knows what happened. And when she knocks at Eitan's door the next day, tall and beautiful, holding his wallet, he discovers that her price is not money. It is something else entirely, something that will shatter Eitan's safe existence and take him into a world of secrets and lies he could never have anticipated.

Waking Lions is a gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire. It looks at the darkness inside all of us to ask: what would we do? What are any of us capable of?

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Review

'Gundar-Goshen's gripping second novel twists and turns like a thriller, and it is particularly impressive in its moral ambiguities' -- The Sunday Times

'The highly anticipated second novel [by Gundar-Goshen]... this novel proves it's not every day a writer like this comes our way' -- Guardian

'Waking Lions is a classy, suspenseful tale of survival where the good guys and the bad guys are harder to distinguish than you might think' -- The Times

'The highly anticipated second novel [by Gundar-Goshen]... this novel proves it's not every day a writer like this comes our way' -- Guardian

'A sophisticated, angst-filled thriller' -- Spectator

'A complex and affecting moral thriller' -- New Statesman

'A literary thriller that is used as a vehicle to explore big moral issues. I loved everything about it' -- Daily Mail

'If there were a literary prize for nail-biting first lines, Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's second novel, Waking Lions would win...brave and startling' -- Financial Times

'An absorbing and atmospheric tale from an exciting literary talent' -- Tatler

'Waking Lions shows us that there's more mystery in who we think we are than in the narrative of any crime thriller' -- Herald

'Her writing on the fluctuations of selfish, guilt-ridden parental love reads like an open wound, its truth just as visceral' -- Big Issue

'A gripping drama... tense pageturner that should appeal to fans of film noir' -- The Lady

'Tense thriller with a serious moral dimension by a critically acclaimed Israeli writer' -- The Sunday Times Crime Club

'A gripping move' -- Jewish News

'[Ayelet Gundar-Goshen] can take a straightforward genre - the thriler - and use it to explore big moral and political questions... we enter a new genre: Israeli noir' -- Jewish Chronicle

'A startlingly achieved novel, with all the page-turning appeal of a fine-honed thriller' -- Jewish Quarterly

'A truly impressive novel... My best read so far this year' -- New Books

'A gripping and tense thriller' -- Jewish Renaissance

'Waking Lions personalises the situation providing insights into the uncomfortable mix of guilt and anger of the host country coupled with the helplessness and fatalism of the refugees' -- The Bay

'Ultimately about humanity... I defy you not to respond to the depth' -- Bookbag

'I couldn't stop reading it, a book I'd recommend to everyone - it's a grenade!' --SFR Book Club

'A tense tale of life at the margins of society' --Bookbag's Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2016

From the Author

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. Her debut novel One Night, Markovitch won the Sapir Prize for best debut and is being translated into five languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782271562
• ISBN 13: 9781782271567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416