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AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN was born in Israel in 1982. She is a practising clinical psychologist, has been a news editor on Israel's leading newspaper and has worked for the Israeli civil rights movement. One Night, Markovitch, her first novel, won the Sapir Prize for best debut. Her novel Waking Lions was a New York Times Book of the Year and won the Wingate Prize, and her novel Liar was Editor's Choice in People magazine. All of her novels are available from Pushkin Press.Gundar-Goshen's gripping second novel twists and turns like a thriller, and it is particularly impressive in its moral ambiguities
Sunday Times
An absorbing and atmospheric tale from an exciting literary talent
Tatler
A classy, suspenseful tale of survival where the good guys and the bad guys are harder to distinguish than you might think. The implications of Gundar-Goshen's work extend far beyond its Israeli setting and shine a penetrating light into the dark corners of our safe lives
The Times
A literary thriller that is used as a vehicle to explore big moral issues. I loved everything about it
Daily Mail
The great overlooked read of the summer... its real engine, one that never stops thrumming, is the idea that life can change for ever in one nauseating second
- Rachel Cooke, Observer
The highly anticipated second novel [by Gundar-Goshen]... proves it's not every day a writer like this comes our way
Guardian
A sophisticated, angst-filled thriller
Spectator
Tense thriller set among Israel's illegal immigrant community
- Mariella Frostrup, Observer's Best Holiday Reads 2016
A complex and affecting moral thriller
New Statesman
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
Waking Lions shows us that there's more mystery in who we think we are than in the narrative of any crime thriller
Sunday Herald
Waking Lions turns on a brilliant conceit: one night, driving along an unlit road in Southern Israel, Dr Eitan Green knocks down an African asylum seeker
TLS
Exhilarating... Skillfully translated by Sondra Silverston, Waking Lions is a sophisticated and darkly ambitious novel, revealing an aspect of Israeli life rarely seen in its literature
New York Times
Tense thriller with serious moral dimension by a critically acclaimed Israeli writer
The Sunday Times Crime Club
A gripping drama... tense pageturner that should appeal to fans of film noir
The Lady
What gives Waking Lions its edge is Gundar-Goshen's déja-vu evoking depiction of the mental bunny hops which dominate our waking hours. Her writing on the fluctuations of selfish, guilt-ridden parental love reads like an open wound, its truth just as visceral
Big Issue
[Ayelet Gundar-Goshen] can take a straightforward genre - the thriller - and use it to explore big moral and political questions about secrets, lies and race in modern-day Israel... we enter a new genre: Israeli noir
Jewish Chronicle
A gripping novel
Jewish News
A daring, genre-defying literary creation... [a] remarkable novel, so layered it is with meanings, perspectives and insights
Thriller Books Journal
Extraordinarily assured...daring
Jewish Quarterly
Takes real events and fictionalises them to explore themes of self-awareness, intimacy, and the human capacity for good and evil, ignorance and indifference, concealment and deception
Bookanista
A gripping and tense thriller
Jewish Renaissance magazine
One of the best crime books to cross my desk in some time
Crime Review
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. All of that wrapped in a drama that is gripping enough if you don't want to think that far into what it all means... but to be honest, I defy you not to respond to the depth
Bookbag
[Waking Lions] is a sharp, thoughtful, challenging novel. It makes Ayelet Gundar-Goshen out as a very talented writer indeed
The Writes of Woman (blog)
The synopsis of Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's second novel, Waking Lions, is like the premise for a movie
Elle Thinks (blog)
Gundar-Goshen's fine book explores guilt and obligation in a way that left this reader enriched but very, very uncomfortable indeed
Shelf Life (blog)
If it affects you as it did me you will finish it feeling slightly dirty, spoiled by whatever privileges and comforts you may enjoy, and guilty, definitely guilty in your complicity in looking away from suffering
Eve's Alexandria (blog)
Such an informative and surprising novel
Lizzy's Literary Life (blog)
A cleverly-plotted novel with a strong moral and highly contemporary sociopolitical theme
Annethology (blog)
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
A gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama... Gripping, provocative, original, it's stayed with me more, perhaps, than any other book I read this year
Foyles Top Ten Fiction Titles of 2016
Waking Lions, in a propulsive translation from Hebrew by Sondra Silverstone, yokes a crime story to thorny ethical issues in ways reminiscent of Donna Tartt and Richard Price... it's a rare book that can trouble your conscience while holding you in a fine state of suspense
Wall Street Journal
Anyone who loves the magic of the printed word should read Waking Lions... Gunnar Goshen has earned, and deserves, a worldwide audience, and this magnificent novel may well be the vehicle for that
Bookreporter
Waking Lions is a gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire
Newsweek
Vividly imagined, clever, and morally ambiguous... it's a smart and disturbing exploration of the high price of walking away, whether it be from a car accident or from one's own politically unstable homeland
NPR's Fresh Air
It is a literary achievement for its page-turning exploration of inconvenient empathy and culpability. Gundar-Goshen's description of pain and medicine are tender and startling, but perhaps the novel's greatest strength is the way it considers how we look at each other, the power of our gaze on strangers and on those we love. It's about seeing and being seen, about pride and power. This is a brave novel, socially aware and truly unforgettable
Bookpage
Immensely suspenseful... alarmingly realistic and superbly written
Shelf Awareness
This is a profound and moving book, sure to make all of us reassess our view of refugees in our rapidly changing world
Winnipeg Free Press
A gripping and suspenseful moral drama that looks at the darkness inside all of us to ask: what would you do?
Dr Eitan Green is speeding through the moonlit desert in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift when he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he impulsively flees the scene.
It is a decision that changes everything.
When the dead man's wife appears on his doorstep, her price for silence is not money but something else entirely. Meanwhile, Eitan's wife is the police detective tasked with investigating the hit-and-run, following a trail that leads dangerously close to home . . .
PRAISE FOR WAKING LIONS:
'You can't put it down' GUARDIAN
'Classy . . . suspenseful' THE TIMES
'A sophisticated, angst-filled thriller' SPECTATOR
'Complex and morally affecting' NEW STATESMAN
'Absorbing and atmospheric' TATLER'I loved everything about it' DAILY MAIL