This is some novel! Whether or not you were ever bullied at school; whether or not you belong in some sense to an ethnic/religious minority; whether or not you are a mother who finds she doesn’t really know what is going on for her teenage son – then if you read The Wolf Hunt, you may end up with an inkling of what it feels like to be any one or combination of these emotions.
Ayelat Gundar-Goshen writes in Hebrew, this is a translation. The novel is set in Silicon Valley: the greenest, quietist, safest place in America, until it isn’t. The trigger words, massacre in a synagogue, Nation of Islam, Mossad all will tell you that something is going to happen. But the parents of Adam are both blissfully unaware of the great wave that is about to crash over them.
This amazing novel brilliantly evokes all the uncertainties and paranoia that can result is the smallest jar in an apparently uncomplicated life, but once the crack opens it can widen until it is an abyss of incomprehension, doubt and fear. But what, or who, is behind it all? Sometimes you can never be entirely sure.
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