Waking Lions - Softcover

'Gundar-Goshen's gripping second novel twists and turns like a thriller, and it is particularly impressive in its moral ambiguities' -- The Sunday Times

'The great overlooked read of the summer' -- Rachel Cooke, Observer

'The highly anticipated second novel [by Gundar-Goshen]... proves it's not every day a writer like this comes our way' -- Guardian

'Window to a secret world... beautifully translated' -- Mariella Frostrup, Observer's, Best Books of 2016

'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 implications of Gundar-Goshen's work extend far beyond its Israeli setting and shine a penetrating light into the dark corners of our safe lives' -- The Times

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

'An absorbing and atmospheric tale from an exciting literary talent' -- Tatler

'If there were a literary prize for nail-biting first lines, Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's second novel, Waking Lions, would win...brave and startling' -- Financial Times

'A sophisticated, angst-filled thriller' -- Spectator

'A complex and affecting moral thriller' -- New Statesman

'Waking Lions shows us that there's more mystery in who we think we are than in the narrative of any crime thriller' -- Sunday Herald

'A gripping drama... tense pageturner that should appeal to fans of film noir' -- The Lady

'Tense thriller with serious moral dimension by a critically acclaimed Israeli writer' -- The Sunday Times Crime Club

'What gives Waking Lions its edge is Gundar-Goshen's deja-vu evoking depiction of the mental bunny hops which dominate our waking hours. Her writing on the fluctuations of selfish, guilt-ridden parental love reads like an open wound, its truth just as visceral' -- Big Issue

'[Ayelet Gundar-Goshen] can take a straightforward genre - the thriller - and use it to explore big moral and political questions about secrets, lies and race in modern-day Israel... we enter a new genre: Israeli noir' -- Jewish Chronicle

'A gripping novel' -- Jewish News

'Extraordinarily assured... daring' -- Jewish Quarterly

'Takes real events and fictionalises them to explore themes of self-awareness, intimacy, and the human capacity for good and evil, ignorance and indifference, concealment and deception' -- Bookanista

'A gripping and tense thriller' -- Jewish Renaissance magazine

'Waking Lions personalises the situation providing insights into the uncomfortable mix of guilt and anger of the host country coupled with the helplessness and fatalism of the refugees' -- The Bay

'Ultimately, about humanity. All of that wrapped in a drama that is gripping enough if you don't want to think that far into what it all means... but to be honest, I defy you not to respond to the depth' -- Bookbag

'A cleverly-plotted novel with a strong moral and highly contemporary sociopolitical theme' -- Annethology

'The synopsis of Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's second novel, Waking Lions, is like the premise for a movie' -- Elle Thinks

'If it affects you as it did me you will finish it feeling slightly dirty, spoiled by whatever privileges and comforts you may enjoy, and guilty, definitely guilty in your complicity in looking away from suffering' -- Eve's Alexandria

'I couldn't stop reading it, a book I'd recommend to everyone - it's a grenade!' --SFR Book Club

'Waking Lions turns on a brilliant conceit: one night, driving along an unlit road in Southern Israel, Dr Eitan Green knocks down an African asylum seeker' -- TLS

'Exhilarating... cinematic... sophisticated and darkly ambitious' -- New York Times

'Waking Lions... yokes a crime story to thorny ethical issues in ways reminiscent of Donna Tartt and Richard Price... it's a rare book that can trouble your conscience while holding you in a fine state of suspense' -- Wall Street Journal

'Immensely suspenseful... alarmingly realistic and superbly written' -- Shelf Awareness

'Waking Lions is a gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire' -- Newsweek

'Vividly imagined, clever, and morally ambiguous... it's a smart and disturbing exploration of the high price of walking away, whether it be from a car accident or from one's own politically unstable homeland' -- NPR's Fresh Air

'This is a brave novel, socially aware and truly unforgettable' -- Bookpage

'This is a profound and moving book, sure to make all of us reassess our view of refugees in our rapidly changing world' -- Winnipeg Free Press

'Anyone who loves the magic of the printed word should read Waking Lions... Gundar Goshen has earned, and deserves, a worldwide audience, and this magnificent novel may well be the vehicle for that' --Bookreporter

'A tense tale of life at the margins of society' --Bookbag's Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2016