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Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (view source)
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It took me longer to read than I would normally have expected, but it rewards commitment. The language fits the telling so credit to the translator. It feels to be of the place. Gentle, lyric, tense.
We’re so used to reading about Israel from the outside, maybe we’ll understand more by reading the writers based there. For more Israeli crime fiction Bookbag recommends [[A Possibility of Violence: An Inspector Avraham Avraham Novel (Inspector Avraham 2) by D A Mishani and Todd Hasak-Lowy (Translator)]] {{toptentext|list=Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2016}}
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