A hit-and-race accident and a blackmailing widow spark a triangle of moral dilemmas in the highly anticipated second book from the Israeli novelist“He’s thinking that the moon is the most beautiful he has ever seen when he hits the man.” So begins the highly anticipated second novel from Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. The “he” in question is Dr Eitan Green,an accomplished Israeli neurosurgeon who has just been reluctantly relocated to the dust-riddled city of Beersheba with his wife Liat and their two sons.
To console his bruised ego, Eitan purchases an SUV with the intention of taking night-time drives in the desert. But one night he collides with, and kills,a man who is also modern to the area, having immigrated from Eritrea. Fleeing the scene, and Eitan resolves to withhold his secret to himself,concluding that “people live entire lives with some measure or another of unease”. When the victim’s widow shows up on his doorstep, wanting not money but something else altogether, and his entire existence is called into question.
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Source: theguardian.com