Waking Lions
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4.2 • 94 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In this thrilling drama from an award-winning author, after one night's deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation.
Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life—married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene.
When the victim's widow knocks at Eitan's door the next day, holding his wallet and divulging that she knows what happened, Eitan discovers that her price for silence is not money. It is something else entirely, something that will shatter Eitan's safe existence and take him into a world of secrets and lies he could never have anticipated.
Waking Lions is a gripping, suspenseful, and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire from a remarkable young author on the rise.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A moment's inattention upends multiple lives in Gundar-Goshen's powerful thriller, the Israeli author's first novel to be published in the U.S. When Dr. Eitan Green uncovered corruption at the hospital he worked at in Tel Aviv, he was forced to take a less desirable position in Beersheba in the Negev desert. Now, after a too-long shift at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital, an exhausted Eitan glances at the Moon in his rearview window during his drive home. While his eyes are off the road, he strikes an Eritrean man, who suffers a skull fracture. Unable to do anything to save the man's life, the guilt-ridden Eitan flees. His nightmare worsens when the victim's wife appears at his home, bearing the wallet he dropped at the scene of the hit-and-run. He agrees to give her fellow Eritreans medical treatment at night in exchange for her keeping silent about his role in her husband's death. The arrangement forces Eitan to lie to his police detective wife, who has been looking into the fatality. The psychological complications match the plot ones and will please Ruth Rendell fans.
Customer Reviews
Superb must-read!
I’ve rarely gobbled up a book so quickly! Starting with an extraordinary moral dilemma, the book explores the choices we make, good and bad, and their real consequences in a life. It also focuses squarely on race and our hidden prejudices in a timely way. The writing is beautiful, and I usually wouldn’t say that for a book in translation, which this clearly is. Thanks to a good friend for recommending it!
Great book
Loved it. Great insights into the human condition. Lovely writing.
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Translation exceptional. Opened my mind to atrocities I didn't want to acknowledge your vision of truth inspired me to examine my own hidden insecurities. thank you for sharing yourself with your readers
Gloria Mitchell
My son is a physician and graduated from Tel Aviv University Zmedical School in 1982 as did his wife. They practice medicine in NYC. Their specialty is immune disease. His name is Dean Mitchell and his wife is Ricki Mithchell