Liar by Ayelet Gunder-Goshen
Paperback published by Pushkin Press 28th March 2019
One Mistake can have a thousand consequences
Nofar is just an average teenage girl – so average, she’s almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. Then one day, in walks faded celebrity Avishai Milner, who after a moment of anger and misunderstanding suddenly finds himself accused of sexually assaulting her.
Now everyone wants to talk Nofar the press, her schoolmates, and the boy upstairs who saw what happened.
Written in Gundar -Goshen’s irresistible piercing prose , this unforgettable novel brilliantly explores how far a lie can travel, how we tackle serious moral dilemmas, and how much we are willing to believe.
My Review
Liar by Ayelet Gunder-Goshen, is the best book by Pushkin Press that I have read. I think that what held my attention from beginning to end, was the prose in the way this story has been written. The prose of words and story will stay with me for ever.
We all know if we tell a lie it can back fire and we suffer the consequences. Liar is a story that reveals a true saying, one mistake can have a thousand consequences.
Nofar is a very plain young school girl who life isn’t interesting, no one bothers to notice her, or talk to her. The only people that do talk to her are the people that que up for an ice cream at the ice cream parlour, where she works. Until one day a singer says something insulting to her. The singer finds himself arrested for sexual assault on Nofar. Now Nofar has the attention she craved for by everyone at her school, the press and TV, but is Nofar telling the truth and the whole truth at what the celebrity Avishai Milner did to her? A boy Lavi, who lived on a floor upstairs with his family had seen everything that day what really happened. I couldn’t stop reading this beautiful story about what happens throughout in Nofar’s life. I truly recommend this book Liar.
About the author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982 and holds a MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. Both Ayelet’s previous novels published by Pushkin, Waking Lions and One Night, Markovitch, are international bestsellers which have been translated into ten languages.
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