Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

From the award-winning author of Waking Lions, a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream -- and the false assumption that comes from it -- radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down. Nofar is an average -- very average -- teenage girl working in an ice cream parlor at the end of summer. Dozens of customers come to the shop every day, but no one gives her a second glance--she is not one of those girls that the eye lingers on. But Nofar's world changes completely when a well-known TV presenter comes into the shop. Bitter about his own failures, he insults and humiliates her and she flees in tears. The presenter, who is still waiting for his change, chases her and the girl screams. Nofar's shouts alert the neighbors, and to her surprise everyone is convinced that the man tried to sexually assault her. And she decides to let them believe it. For the first time in her life, Nofar finds herself the center of attention. Her lie turns her into a kind of Cinderella, as the plain, awkward ice cream seller becomes a media princess. Meanwhile, one of the only people who knows what really happened demands a price for his silence. Written with dark humor and deep insight into the shadowy side of human nature, The Liar is a story about how one little lie can make a huge difference. In a world of media connectivity and alternate facts, the scream of one girl can make an entire city tweet and howl.

The Liar

Sondra Silverston

A neurosurgeon runs an illegal immigrant over in his car. There are no witnesses, and the man will die in any case-so why endanger his career and report the accident? But the next day, the victim's wife knocks on the doctor's door and makes him an offer which will completely derail his well-ordered life. How would we have acted in the same situation? This question hovers over this compelling and timely novel by an award-winning author, which masterfully explores the boundary between love and hate, guilt and forgiveness, good and evil.

Waking Lions

Captain Corelli's Mandolin meets The Marrying of Chani Kaufman in this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe. On the eve of World War II, a ship bearing twenty young men sets sail from the Palestine Territory toward Europe. Eagerly awaiting them on the other side are twenty young women, whom the men have never met. They have been set up in arranged marriages to enable Jewish women to escape Nazi Germany and enter Palestine without being turned back by the British. But when Yaacov Markovitch, a thoroughly unremarkable man, finds himself married to Bella Zeigerman, the most beautiful woman he has ever set eyes upon, things start to get complicated. Yaacov's fake marriage is the beginning of a lifelong obsession, as he vows to make his beautiful bride, Bella, love him, despite her determination to break free. Their changing fortunes take them through war, upheaval, terrible secrets, tragedy, joy, and loss. Vital, funny, and tender, One Night, Markovitch brilliantly fuses personal lives and epic history in an unforgettable story of endless, hopeless longing and the desperate search for love.

One Night, Markovitch

Lügnerin : Roman

Löwen wecken

Where the Wolf Lurks

Wo der Wolf lauert

Una notte soltanto, Markovitch

Liar

Svegliare i leoni

Klamárka

O neurocirurgião Eitan Green parece ter a vida perfeita. Ele ama a esposa, Liat, uma policial. Ele adora seus dois meninos. Transferido com relutância de Tel Aviv para a poeirenta Beer Sheva, à beira do deserto, o médico compra um carro novo — um utilitário — para transitar pelas estradas tomadas pela areia. Certa ocasião, no entanto, quando retornava de seu cansativo turno no hospital, ele atropela alguém e foge do local. A vítima é um imigrante africano que, como muitos, está buscando uma nova vida em Israel. Quando a viúva da vítima bate à porta de Eitan no dia seguinte, portando sua carteira e afirmando saber tudo o que aconteceu, o médico descobre que o preço dela pelo silêncio não é dinheiro. É algo totalmente diferente e aterrador. Algo que irá solapar a sua existência segura e o conduzirá a um mundo de segredos e mentiras que ele nunca poderia ter imaginado. Enquanto a investigação acerca do atropelamento é confiada à sua própria esposa, o médico é arrastado para a voragem de uma vida dupla, num contexto de tráfico, violência e desejos vergonhosos. Mas também passa a conhecer um outro lado de seu país: a existência de toda uma população de imigrantes da África que chega a Israel com a esperança de encontrar um novo capítulo para suas vidas depois de enfrentarem a fome, a guerra e o preconceito. Um dos nomes mais importantes da literatura israelense contemporânea, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen constrói um suspense humanitário sobre dilemas morais que faz o leitor mergulhar em um mundo desconhecido e palpitante.

Despertar os leões

Nova e brilhante voz da literatura israelense, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen é uma contadora de histórias fluente e dada ao realismo mágico. Traduzido para 14 idiomas, este seu romance de estreia recebeu aclamação internacional. Às vésperas da Segunda Guerra, um grupo de jovens parte da Palestina para a Europa. Do outro lado do mar, um grupo de jovens judias que nunca conheceram os esperam. O objetivo: casamentos fictícios com os quais as meninas poderão escapar da Europa sob Hitler e alcançar a futura pátria judaica, então sob o domínio britânico. Dois dos jovens são amigos íntimos, mas muito diferentes um do outro. Zeev Feinberg, um sujeito ousado, alto e musculoso, tem um belo bigode e está acostumado a ter mulheres caídas a seus pés. O outro, Iaakov Markovitch, é um cara indescritível e monótono sem qualquer tipo de carisma: nenhuma mulher já olhou para ele. No entanto, é Markovitch quem fica com a mulher mais bonita, a deslumbrante Bella Zeigerman. Contra o pano de fundo da guerra na Europa e a Guerra de Independência de Israel, com o enredo indo e vindo entre os pequenos indivíduos e os grandes eventos que os rodeiam, tudo isso num andamento ágil e mítico, o colorido romance de estreia de Gundar-Goshen reconta eventos do século XX de forma divertida e ilustrada.

Uma noite, Markovitch

Ein stürmischer Roman, der zeigt, wie zerbrechlich unser geordnetes Leben eigentlich ist

"L'homme, il le percute précisément au moment où il songe que c'est la plus belle lune qu'il a vue de sa vie." Le Dr Ethan Green est un homme bien. Il sauve des vies. Il aime sa femme. Il adore ses deux petits garçons. Le Dr Ethan Green a de la chance : il est né du bon côté. Cette nuit-là, pourtant, le neurochirurgien prend la fuite après avoir percuté un homme sur une route, dans le désert. Le lendemain, la femme de la victime se présente à la villa du médecin : elle a tout vu. Sirkitt, qui partage une caravane avec d'autres clandestins soudanais ou érythréens, découvre un monde de confort. Cependant, ce qu'elle exige d'Ethan en échange de son silence ne se quantifie pas en argent... Alors que l'enquête sur le chauffard est confiée à son épouse, inspecteur de police, Ethan Green s'engouffre dans la mécanique de la double vie, sur fond de trafics, de violences – et de désirs inavouables. Après Une nuit, Markovitch, l'espoir de la littérature israélienne revient avec un thriller humanitaire qui plonge le lecteur au coeur d'un monde méconnu. Concerto pour trois voix capiteux et tendu, Réveiller les lions fait jaillir un chant âpre et sombre mais irradié d'empathie, qui en dit autant sur les failles d'un pays que sur celles d'un couple – un roman dérangeant et engagé qui en dit moins sur ce qui oppose les hommes que sur ce qui les lie.

Réveiller les lions

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely and suspenseful exploration of the fault lines in a community, a school, and a family, as a mother begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime. Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful husband and stable marriage, and a teenage son, Adam, with whom she has always felt a particular closeness. Israeli immigrants, the family has now lived in the U.S. long enough that they consider it home. But after a brutal attack on a local synagogue shakes their sense of safety, Adam enrolls in a self-defense class taught by a former Israeli Special Forces officer. There, for the first time, he finds a sense of confidence and belonging. Then, tragedy strikes again when an African American boy dies at a house party, apparently from a drug overdose. Though he was a high school classmate, Adam claims not to know him. Yet rumors begin to circulate that the death was not accidental, and that Adam and his new friends had a history with Jamal. As more details surface and racial tensions in the community are ignited, Lilach begins to question everything she thought she knew about her son. Could her worst fears be possible? Could her quiet, reclusive child have had something to do with Jamal’s death? Praised for “instilling emotional depth into a thriller plot” (New York Times Book Review on Waking Lions), Ayelet Gundar-Goshen once again brings together taut, page-turning suspense, superb writing, and razor-sharp insight into the fault lines of race, identity, and privilege and the dark secrets we hide from those we love most.

A Novel

The Wolf Hunt

En vísperas de la segunda Guerra Mundial partía de Israel rumbo a Europa un barco con veinte hombres jóvenes a bordo. Del otro lado del mar los esperaban veinte mujeres desconocidas. El objetivo: un matrimonio ficticio que permitiría a las mujeres huir de Europa y arribar a Eretz Israel. Pero cuando Jacob Markovich, un hombre gris a todas luces, se encuentra casado con Bella Zeigerman, la más hermosa de las mujeres que había visto en su vida, el trámite se complica. Una noche, Markovich sorprende por la sagacidad de su estructura y la madurez de su estilo. Es una novela carnavalesca, rica y colorida que pinta novedosamente uno de los capítulos más emocionantes del devenir de este país. Hechos históricos y atrevidas fantasías se mezclan aquí hasta volverse irreconocibles: altos dirigentes del Movimiento Sionista mantienen relaciones amorosas con mujeres con olor a naranjas, valientes comandantes conquistan fortalezas ayudados por rengos y borrachos, y el sol detiene la alborada para beneficiar a hombres de ardientes rogativas. Algunos de ellos se harán merecedores de que una calle bulliciosa lleve sus nombres, y otros dormirán plácidamente entre las páginas de la historia. Entre ellos deambula Jacob Markovich, aferrado a la hermosa Bella, sin claudicar. Una noche, Marcovich establece un vínculo de seducción y engaño con el lector. A veces despierta empatía y compasión, y otras se revela pletórico de un humor, agudo e irónico.

Una noche, Markovich

Lilach a tout pour elle : une belle maison au coeur de la Silicon Valley, un mari aimant et riche et un fils adolescent, Adam. Le couple, d'origine israélienne, vit en Californie depuis si longtemps qu'il se sent presque américain. Mais un terrible attentat dans une synagogue voisine ébranle leur sentiment de sécurité et Adam, de nature introvertie et solitaire, rejoint bientôt le groupe de krav-maga du charismatique Ouri. Peu de temps après, la tragédie frappe de nouveau : un jeune homme noir meurt lors d'une fête. Adam, qui pourtant y assistait, prétend ne pas connaître la victime. Tandis que les tensions raciales s'enflamment au sein de la communauté, Lilach commence à remettre en question tout ce qu'elle croyait savoir sur son fils. Dans ce nouveau roman, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen analyse la complexité des relations au sein d'une famille, d'une communauté, d'un pays qui n'est pas le pays natal, et questionne une nouvelle fois le mensonge qui va mener ici à une terrible trahison.

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

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