“He’s thinking that the moon is the most beautiful he has ever seen when he hits the man.” So begins the highly anticipated second novel from Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. The “he” in question ...

The couple was invited to the country by the Israeli Embassy in Brasilia and the Consulate General in Sao Paulo in coordination with the publishing house TODAVIA, which published the Portuguese ...

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On the first page of Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s award winning novel, “Waking Lions,” the principal protagonist, Dr. Eitan Green, is faced with a moral dilemma. Speeding along an empty moonlight road in ...

Gundar-Goshen’s is about averting harm — though this trajectory, too, can have dire consequences. “The Wolf Hunt” begins with a sadly all-too believable, too familiar premise, set not long after the ...

An Israeli novelist who is also a clinical psychologist describes how narrative can help Israelis overcome the trauma of October 7.

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is an award-winning author whose second novel, 'Waking Lions', is out now in paperback from Pushkin Press (£8.99) To get more from Life, click here to sign up for our free Life ...

Gundar-Goshen is a liberal and has also worked for the Israeli Human Rights Association. She is on the left of Israeli politics, so much so that she planned to protest against her government's ...