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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

(Fiction, 352 p. Hebrew, 2014 ; English Translation, 2017)

After one night’s deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation in this gripping, suspenseful, and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire.

Kirkus Review

Review by Ayelet Tsabari, New York Times, March 15, 2017

Review by Maureen Corrigan, NPR, March 1 2017

Review by Suri Boiangiu, Jewish Book Council

Review by Ruth Gilligan, Guardian, March 30, 2016

Review by Adam Kirsch, Tablet, February 22, 2017

Review by David Cooper, New York Journal of Books

 JP O’ Malley interviews Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Times of Israel, May 2017

Video of Gundar-Goshen discussing Waking Lions, June 2018