Waking Lions
Autor Ayelet Gundar-Goshenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2018
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ANew
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2017
After one night's deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation.
Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life--married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene.
When the victim's widow knocks at Eitan's door the next day, holding his wallet and divulging that she knows what happened, Eitan discovers that her price for silence 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 from a remarkable young author on the rise.
After one night's deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation.
Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life--married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene.
When the victim's widow knocks at Eitan's door the next day, holding his wallet and divulging that she knows what happened, Eitan discovers that her price for silence 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 from a remarkable young author on the rise.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316395410
ISBN-10: 0316395412
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316395412
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Ayelet
Gundar-Goshen
was
born
in
Israel
in
1982
and
holds
an
MA
in
clinical
psychology
from
Tel
Aviv
University.
She
has
worked
for
the
Israeli
civil
rights
movement,
and
is
an
award-winning
screenwriter.
She
won
Israel's
prestigious
Sapir
Prize
for
best
debut.Waking
Lions,her
first
novel
published
in
the
U.S.,
has
been
translated
into
nine
languages.
Recenzii
"Waking
Lionsoffers
a
commentary
on
privilege
and
otherness,
challenging
readers
to
confront
their
own
blind
spots
and
preconceptions....Trained
as
a
clinical
psychologist,
Gundar-Goshen
examines
her
characters
with
the
same
formidable
gaze.
Nobody
emerges
unscathed....Gundar-Goshen
is
adept
at
instilling
emotional
depth
into
a
thriller
plot,
delivering
the
required
twists
and
turns
along
with
an
incisive
portrayal
of
her
characters'
guilt,
shame
and
desire,
fluidly
shifting
between
their
perspectives....Readers
will
be
rewarded
by
[Waking
Lions']
exhilarating,
cinematic
finale.
Skillfully
translated
by
Sondra
Silverston,Waking
Lionsis
a
sophisticated
and
darkly
ambitious
novel,
revealing
an
aspect
of
Israeli
life
rarely
seen
in
its
literature."—Ayelet
Tsabari,New
York
Times
Book
Review
"Vividly imagined, clever, and morally ambiguous....[Waking Lions] is 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."
—Maureen Corrigan,National Public Radio's "Fresh Air"
"Waking Lions, in a propulsive translation from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, 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."
—Sam Sacks,Wall Street Journal
"If there were a literary prize for nail-biting first lines, Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's second novel,Waking Lionswould win...brave and startling."
—Financial Times UK
"Uncommonly complex, socially aware, and ethically ambiguous....plot is almost secondary to the political implications Gundar-Goshen explores - but what a plot it is, fuel for meditations on integrity and the layered guilt of the Israeli bourgeoisie."
—Boris Kachka,New York "7 Books You Need to Read This February"
"Earth-shattering."—Harper's Bazaar
"An intense moral thriller.... The twists upon twists upon twists in this story...will have readers yelping out loud.Waking Lionsseems poised to catch fire."
—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Anyone who loves the magic of the printed word should readWaking Lions....Gundar-Goshen has earned, and deserves, a worldwide audience, and this magnificent novel may well be the vehicle for that."—Joe Hartlaub,Bookreporter
"It pulled me right in. In just 18 words, a spell was cast and broken, and I couldn't wait to go on."
—Moira MacDonald,Seattle Times
"Gripping....twists and turns like a thriller."
—Sunday Times UK
"It is a literary achievement for its page-turning exploration of inconvenient empathy and culpability. Gundar-Goshen's descriptions 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."
—Cat Acree,BookPage
"Waking Lionsis immensely suspenseful. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's alarmingly realistic and superbly written novel will leave readers wondering what they might be capable of under duress, and what makes a good person do such an awful thing--and if a marriage can survive such deception. The difficult decisions faced by Eitan, Liat and the Eritrean community are haunting."
—Jessica Howard,Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's novel,Waking Lions,is more than your guilty-pleasure thriller - although its twists and turns will keep you in suspense until the last page."
—E. Ce Miller,Bustle
"It's not every day a writer like this comes our way."
—Guardian UK
"A moment's inattention upends multiple lives in Gundar-Goshen's powerful thriller....The psychological complications match the plot ones and will please Ruth Rendell fans."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"....a work of great subtlety which wrenches at the heart of both the family and the state, and makes for compulsive reading.... [A] sophisticated, angst-filled thriller."
—Brian Martin,Spectator UK
"Mesmerizing....Smoothly alternating points of view, it uses the format of a thriller to study the almost unbridgeable gap between insider and outsider. The complex relationships between Israelis, Bedouin Arabs, and Eritreans may be unique to Israel, but that social dynamic will reverberate meaningfully with U.S. readers as well."
—Booklist (starred review)
"Extraordinarily assured. Its themes are daring....Waking Lionsis a startlingly achieved novel, with all the page-turning appeal of a fine-honed thriller. Gundar-Goshen gives voice to the refugee population that haunts the margins of Israeli society, probing the very hardest of the hard questions, both universal and specific to Israel, with the finesse of the brain surgeon and the wisdom of the philosopher, both of whom know only too well that there are no easy answers."
—Natasha Lehrer,Jewish Quarterly
"Waking Lionsis a classy, suspenseful tale of survival where the good guys and the bad guys are harder to distinguish than you might think."
—The Times UK
"Waking Lionshas the type of seductive plot twists-a hit-and-run, a blackmailing scheme, a crime that threatens to rend a marriage-that, seemingly, only a fiction writer could concoct. But in fact, the 34-year-old writer, who lives in Israel, borrowed much of the premise of the story from real life."
—Daniel Lefferts,Publishers Weekly "Writers to Watch Spring 2017"
"A literary thriller that is used as a vehicle to explore big moral issues. I loved everything about it."
—Daily Mail UK
"Gundar-Goshentranscends the genre of thriller...WakingLionsis a work of exquisite literary craft, a book that penetrates to theheart and soul of its characters."—Jonathan Kirsch,Jewish Journal
"Why should Jewish immigrants enjoy immediate citizenship in Israel, while African immigrants are detained or deported? Of course, these problems are not unique to Israel. Exactly the same arguments over immigration, on a much larger scale, are dominating the politics of Europe and the United States. It is surely for this reason thatWaking Lions, the new psychological thriller by Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, has broken out to become a worldwide phenomenon."—Adam Kirsch,Tablet Magazine
"An auspicious entry on the English-language scene for Israeli author Gundar-Goshen."
—David Keymer,Library Journal
"[A] suspenseful morality tale."
—Sarah Murdoch,Toronto Star
"InWaking Lions, the bad guys are the good guys, the victims are the perpetrators, and the ending is definitely not what you'll expect."
—E. Ce Miller,Bustle "15 Books With Plot Twists You Never Saw Coming"
"Vividly imagined, clever, and morally ambiguous....[Waking Lions] is 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."
—Maureen Corrigan,National Public Radio's "Fresh Air"
"Waking Lions, in a propulsive translation from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, 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."
—Sam Sacks,Wall Street Journal
"If there were a literary prize for nail-biting first lines, Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's second novel,Waking Lionswould win...brave and startling."
—Financial Times UK
"Uncommonly complex, socially aware, and ethically ambiguous....plot is almost secondary to the political implications Gundar-Goshen explores - but what a plot it is, fuel for meditations on integrity and the layered guilt of the Israeli bourgeoisie."
—Boris Kachka,New York "7 Books You Need to Read This February"
"Earth-shattering."—Harper's Bazaar
"An intense moral thriller.... The twists upon twists upon twists in this story...will have readers yelping out loud.Waking Lionsseems poised to catch fire."
—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Anyone who loves the magic of the printed word should readWaking Lions....Gundar-Goshen has earned, and deserves, a worldwide audience, and this magnificent novel may well be the vehicle for that."—Joe Hartlaub,Bookreporter
"It pulled me right in. In just 18 words, a spell was cast and broken, and I couldn't wait to go on."
—Moira MacDonald,Seattle Times
"Gripping....twists and turns like a thriller."
—Sunday Times UK
"It is a literary achievement for its page-turning exploration of inconvenient empathy and culpability. Gundar-Goshen's descriptions 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."
—Cat Acree,BookPage
"Waking Lionsis immensely suspenseful. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's alarmingly realistic and superbly written novel will leave readers wondering what they might be capable of under duress, and what makes a good person do such an awful thing--and if a marriage can survive such deception. The difficult decisions faced by Eitan, Liat and the Eritrean community are haunting."
—Jessica Howard,Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's novel,Waking Lions,is more than your guilty-pleasure thriller - although its twists and turns will keep you in suspense until the last page."
—E. Ce Miller,Bustle
"It's not every day a writer like this comes our way."
—Guardian UK
"A moment's inattention upends multiple lives in Gundar-Goshen's powerful thriller....The psychological complications match the plot ones and will please Ruth Rendell fans."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"....a work of great subtlety which wrenches at the heart of both the family and the state, and makes for compulsive reading.... [A] sophisticated, angst-filled thriller."
—Brian Martin,Spectator UK
"Mesmerizing....Smoothly alternating points of view, it uses the format of a thriller to study the almost unbridgeable gap between insider and outsider. The complex relationships between Israelis, Bedouin Arabs, and Eritreans may be unique to Israel, but that social dynamic will reverberate meaningfully with U.S. readers as well."
—Booklist (starred review)
"Extraordinarily assured. Its themes are daring....Waking Lionsis a startlingly achieved novel, with all the page-turning appeal of a fine-honed thriller. Gundar-Goshen gives voice to the refugee population that haunts the margins of Israeli society, probing the very hardest of the hard questions, both universal and specific to Israel, with the finesse of the brain surgeon and the wisdom of the philosopher, both of whom know only too well that there are no easy answers."
—Natasha Lehrer,Jewish Quarterly
"Waking Lionsis a classy, suspenseful tale of survival where the good guys and the bad guys are harder to distinguish than you might think."
—The Times UK
"Waking Lionshas the type of seductive plot twists-a hit-and-run, a blackmailing scheme, a crime that threatens to rend a marriage-that, seemingly, only a fiction writer could concoct. But in fact, the 34-year-old writer, who lives in Israel, borrowed much of the premise of the story from real life."
—Daniel Lefferts,Publishers Weekly "Writers to Watch Spring 2017"
"A literary thriller that is used as a vehicle to explore big moral issues. I loved everything about it."
—Daily Mail UK
"Gundar-Goshentranscends the genre of thriller...WakingLionsis a work of exquisite literary craft, a book that penetrates to theheart and soul of its characters."—Jonathan Kirsch,Jewish Journal
"Why should Jewish immigrants enjoy immediate citizenship in Israel, while African immigrants are detained or deported? Of course, these problems are not unique to Israel. Exactly the same arguments over immigration, on a much larger scale, are dominating the politics of Europe and the United States. It is surely for this reason thatWaking Lions, the new psychological thriller by Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, has broken out to become a worldwide phenomenon."—Adam Kirsch,Tablet Magazine
"An auspicious entry on the English-language scene for Israeli author Gundar-Goshen."
—David Keymer,Library Journal
"[A] suspenseful morality tale."
—Sarah Murdoch,Toronto Star
"InWaking Lions, the bad guys are the good guys, the victims are the perpetrators, and the ending is definitely not what you'll expect."
—E. Ce Miller,Bustle "15 Books With Plot Twists You Never Saw Coming"
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A celebrated, thrilling 'Israeli noir' about guilt and desire
A celebrated, thrilling 'Israeli noir' about guilt and desire