(Fiction, 384 pp. Hebrew, 2016; English Translation, 2023)
Tel Aviv professor Avishay Sar-Shalom is a prominent contender for the Nobel Prize in Economics, but a friend finds him dead a week before the award’s announcement. His four closest friends conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the Prize’s recipient is revealed, in the interest of seeing Avishay honored—except that each of the friends has a more selfish motivation. Yedlin explores mortality and the bonds of friendship with psychological insight and dark humor.
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