Bibliograph

The liar, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

Type

Label

The liar, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The liar

Oclc number

1082249391

Responsibility statement

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen ; translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

Summary

From the award-winning author of Waking Lions comes a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream--and the false assumption that comes from it--radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside downTeenaged Nofar is so average that she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream, she is desperate for some kind of escape. One afternoon she tells a terrible lie, and suddenly everyone wants to talk to her: the press, her schoolmates, and even the boy upstairs. He is the only one who knows the truth, and he is demanding a price for his silence. Raymonde, an elderly immigrant whose best friend has just died, keeps her friend alive the only way she knows how: by inhabiting her stories. When Raymonde's lies take on a life of their own, Nofar and Raymonde must face the hidden corners of human nature. -- adapted from jacket

Target audience

adult

Classification