From the award-winning author of Waking Lions and Liar, comes a powerfully compelling novel about a mother who begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Books
January 1, 1982
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen delves into the depths of the human psyche and moral dilemmas. Her works explore the complexities of interpersonal relationships and the influence of the past on the present. Gundar-Goshen masterfully blends psychological insight with compelling narrative, crafting stories that leave readers contemplating.
Waking Lions
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
After one night's deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation.
Liar
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
From the award-winning author of Waking Lions, a provocative novel about how one mistake can have a thousand consequences Nofar is an average teenage girl---so average, in fact, that she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. But one afternoon, a terrible lie slips from her tongue. And suddenly everyone wants to talk to her: the press, her schoolmates, and even the boy upstairs. He is the only one who knows the truth, and he is demanding a price for his silence. Then Nofar meets Raymonde, an elderly immigrant whose best friend has just died. Raymonde keeps her friend alive the only way she knows how, by inhabiting her stories. But soon, Raymonde's lies take on a life of their own. Written with propulsive energy, dark humor, and deep insight, The Liar reveals the far-reaching consequences of even our smallest choices, and explores the hidden corners of human nature to reveal the liar, and the truth-teller, in all of us.
Amazing debut from Israel: magical, side-splitting and deeply touchingIn the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg, virile owner of a lustrous moustache - are crossing the sea to marry women they have never met. They will rescue them from a Europe on the brink of catastrophe, bring them to the Jewish homeland and go their separate ways. But when Markovitch is paired with the beautiful Bella he vows to make her love him at any cost, setting in motion events that will change their lives in the most unexpected and capricious of ways.
