Waking Lions - Hardcover

"Earth-shattering."--Harper's Bazaar


"An intense moral thriller.... The twists upon twists upon twists in this story...will have readers yelping out loud. Waking Lions seems poised to catch fire."
--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)


"Gripping....twists and turns like a thriller."
--Sunday Times UK


"It's not every day a writer like this comes our way."
--Guardian UK


"Waking Lions is a classy, suspenseful tale of survival where the good guys and the bad guys are harder to distinguish than you might think."
--The Times UK


"A literary thriller that is used as a vehicle to explore big moral issues. I loved everything about it."
--Daily Mail UK


"A moment's inattention upends multiple lives in Gundar-Goshen's powerful thriller....The psychological complications match the plot ones and will please Ruth Rendell fans."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)


"Waking Lions has the type of seductive plot twists-a hit-and-run, a blackmailing scheme, a crime that threatens to rend a marriage-that, seemingly, only a fiction writer could concoct. But in fact, the 34-year-old writer, who lives in Israel, borrowed much of the premise of the story from real life."
--Daniel Lefferts, Publishers Weekly "Writers to Watch Spring 2017"


"An auspicious entry on the English-language scene for Israeli author Gundar-Goshen."
--David Keymer, Library Journal


"Why should Jewish immigrants enjoy immediate citizenship in Israel, while African immigrants are detained or deported? Of course, these problems are not unique to Israel. Exactly the same arguments over immigration, on a much larger scale, are dominating the politics of Europe and the United States. It is surely for this reason that Waking Lions, the new psychological thriller by Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, has broken out to become a worldwide phenomenon."--Adam Kirsch, Tablet Magazine

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in clinical psychology from Tel Aviv University. She has worked for the Israeli civil rights movement, and is an award-winning screenwriter. She won Israel's prestigious Sapir Prize for best debut. Waking Lions, her first novel published in the U.S., has been translated into nine languages.