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9780316395434

STARRED REVIEW
World Fiction

Waking Lions

By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Translated by Sondra Silverston

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Review of ‘Waking Lions’

The debut novel from Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, is an intense, twisting tale of prejudices ripped open, guilt that cannot be ignored and the inconvenience of having another person’s humanity exposed before you.

Israeli neurosurgeon Eitan Green wakes up next to his wife, cares for his sons, goes to work at…

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