"Liar" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

We encounter daily and in all areas: the lie. It helps us out of trouble by those for whom we dish up, pretends that everything was in order. It gives us an advantage by cheating on the other. She has a bad reputation, and yet all, we look forward now and to be able to access them. (Amazingly, it has become socially acceptable in recent years in public life. Always cheering more people when they are being lied to, the liar, rather than outlaw it.

But that’s another story.) We read in Ayelet Gundar-Goshens new novel two the damage that can cause a lie, knows no boundaries, and in certain situations, lies can silently sneak into life.

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen know ticking like the human soul. The “liar” of the title is Nuphar Schalev, unobtrusive seventeen of little more attractive, slightly pudgy shape. Maybe they would not develop so timid, reserved nature, would not have stood for ever in the shadow of her younger sister Maya: pretty, graceful and intelligent.

While Maya “green through lovely meadows light” converts and not even the traffic lights her refuse “to [Nuphar] moving in the world like an uninvited guest at a party”. None of them noticed Perhaps would their lives not happy yet run, inconspicuous, they would not have taken the summer job in the ice cream parlor. In her dreams of many customers would from a there are the longed friend, but in reality, not a single pair of eyes focused on her, and the only contact that comes to you, comes in the volatile issue of the change about.

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Perhaps Nuphars encounter with Avischai Milner would have been as irrelevant as all other Eisverkäufe, she had not a little put on their lunch break. Avischai, just need a text put away in his self-image is still the celebrated crooner, he once was, signaling him that his time is finally over. An ice cream can soothe. But a sting follows the next. No one behind the counter. An eternity of waiting. Then an ignorant Pummelchen, which does not recognize him, served not accommodating, even to audacity to correct his sentence structure appears. The clenched frustration unrigged celebrities flushes the last of his Contenance away and pours a torrent of übelster vulgarities and insults (to quote the courtesy of the reviewer bans) on Nuphar.

The young woman loses all grip. This stranger has “killed their essence.” She knows he has carved her all about the ears, which is probably thinks the world of her, but tactfully keep to yourself. Headless she runs out of the ice cream parlor and seeks refuge in the stinking outhouse in the yard. But Avischai is run after her, the door pulls up, grabs her roughly by the arm. That he wants to grudge her only his change, she has no idea she cries for her life, shouting insults, disappointments shouting this and all last summer out of himself.

The noise gets not only curious residents on the plan, but also zealous police officers. Take Avischai in the pliers and ask him what he did to the minor Eisverkäuferin. Be desperate out bellowed “nothing” unheard as the justification, a “plump hippo” he would not even touch with a stick. However, finds Nuphar solace in the arms of a blonde soldier who gives the distraught, trembling girl deep sympathy and soothing words. All bystanders think they know what they requested ( “Did he touch you?”, What else?) And can mean that Nuphars twitching and sobbing nothing more than “yes”. And because of this slippery mud omnipresent headline sprouts the next morning “Attempted rape of a minor – Ex-Star suspected”

In all details spreads the author the well-being of, with which Nuphar now the ugly duckling to. “media Princess” converts. Despite nasty objections, if such a simple creature could ever arouse lust, the story runs like clockwork. Nuphar is (pimped) passed from one show to another. Her classmates admire, and Maya, the eternal beauty is proud of her sister.

But Nuphar reach the heights of their ego trips schwindelndsten important questions. Soon they will have in the trial of verbal criminals, she had been almost passively look like a rapist, statements. Can they really take the responsibility to lie plain language in court and thereby banish the man into prison for years?

Of course Nuphar want, basically an honest, like to return to the path of truth. But how? Long ago the lie wide circles became independent, drawn. Masterfully, the author demonstrates how her protagonist wash in her inner conflict as hinbiegt her story somehow, they that reality comes close, remains yet away so that they do not clenched hatred inflamed all those who saw deceived.

as a new character enters the stage, a neighbor boy with a similar fate as Nuphar that promises all sorts of their own benefits of it if they would confirm the status quo. And, he has to give his wishes reproduction means. On the other hand, the mother pulls her daughter on conscience. She would never let it pass her a fateful lie. Can withstand these onslaughts Nuphar on the shaky ground of their self-consciousness?

From a lie similar caliber we read in the second part of the novel, while Nuphar and their perpetrators and victims need to further torment the truth. Is Nuphar but only hineingeschliddert in their lie, has Raymonde, the second “liar”, highly conscious and calculated for their decision. The old lady is known in the nursing home with a Holocaust survivor and slips after her death in their identity. They are to be “wise, kind Shoah survivors” from, traveling with groups of students to the extermination camps and tells stories that she has previously researched on the Internet. Ironically confesses Nuphar her lie – and receives a severe reprimand.

With its new opus “liar” is the Israeli writer again achieved something major.. It leads again their characters in dire afflictions and manage to make their needs so that we suffer readers first hand. The discarded pop artist about not desperate just to the bitter realization that no one can see him more and wants to hear – he “burns” about it: “The fire that had lit [his former fans] in Avischai Milner, was ablaze It also glowed now. in the dark of his cell. ” Ayelet Gundar-Goshens language is never dull, but consistently diverse, playful, poetic ( “The wind danced in the branches of the orange tree, and the branches answered him with graceful bows”), and it is addictive for more.