(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. They do so 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.
-
Review by Kirkus, August 12, 2023
-
Review by Omer Friedlander, Jewish Book Council, November 13, 2023
-
Review by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Spectator Australia, January 2024
-
Review by Howard Freedman, j., March 28, 2024
-
Review by Yardenne Greenspan, Plowshares, October 6, 2022
-
Review by Rabbi Rachel Esserman, The Reporter, December 27, 2023
-
Review by Zohar, Man of La Book, November 28, 2023
-
Reviews and summary, Bookbrowse, n.d.
-
Reviews from Goodreads, n.d.
-
Review by Sandy Brawarsky, Hadassah Magazine, November 2023
