Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

'Gripping...twists and turns like a thriller' Sunday Times 'Brave and startling' Financial Times 'Classy...suspenseful' The Times 'I loved everything about it' Daily Mail 'Exhilarating' Guardian Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene. It is a decision that changes everything. Because the dead man's wife knows what happened. And her price is not money. It is something else entirely. A gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire. It looks at the darkness inside all of us to ask: what would we do? What are any of us capable of?

In the late 1930s, two men - Yaacov Markovitch, perennially unlucky in love, and Zeev Feinberg, virile owner of a lustrous moustache - are crossing the sea to marry women they have never met. They will rescue them from a Europe on the brink of catastrophe, bring them to the Jewish homeland and go their separate ways. But when Markovitch is paired with the beautiful Bella he vows to make her love him at any cost, setting in motion events that will change their lives in the most unexpected and capricious of ways. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University, has been a news editor on Israel's leading newspaper and has worked for the Israeli civil rights movement. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. OneNight, Markovitch, her first novel, won the Sapir Prize for best debut.

Tretí román úspešnej izraelskej autorky Ajelet Gundar Gošen je príbeh sedemnásťročnej Nufar, ktorá trávi leto brigádou v zmrzlinárni. Každý deň obsluhuje desiatky ľudí, no nikto jej nevenuje zvláštnu pozornosť. Z narastajúcej frustrácie a zúfalstva ju vytrhne náhodné stretnutie s postarším mužom Avišajom Milnerom, bývalou celebritou. Ich hádka upúta pozornosť okoloidúcich a Nufar Avišaja krivo obviní zo sexuálneho napadnutia. Nevinná lož spraví zo šikanovaného dievčaťa hrdinku a mediálnu hviezdu. Dievča však nepočíta so skrytým svedkom udalosti – mladým chlapcom Leom... Rozprávka o Popoluške, postavená na klamstve, sa jej začína rúcať. Príbeh o osamelosti, dospievaní, morálnych dilemách a o lži, ktorá sa vymkne z rúk a žije si vlastným životom.