'Gripping . . . twists and turns like a thriller' Sunday Times'Brave and startling' Financial Times'Classy . . . suspenseful' The Times'I loved everything about it' Daily Mail'Exhilarating' GuardianDr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene. It is a decision that changes everything. Because the dead man's wife knows what happened. And her price is not money. It is something else entirely.A gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival, shame and desire. It looks at the darkness inside all of us to ask: what would we do? What are any of us capable of?

Vorwort
New paperback edition of this acclaimed second novel by the author of One Night, Markovitch

Autorentext
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982. She holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University, has been a news editor on Israel's leading newspaper and has worked for the Israeli civil rights movement. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. One Night, Markovitch, her first novel, won the Sapir Prize for best debut.

Zusammenfassung
After one night's deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation.