Ungebetene Gäste

Reading and discussion with Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, moderated by Anat Feinberg

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's novels are clever and profound illuminations of inner human conflicts. In her new novel "Uninvited Guests", translated from the Hebrew by Ruth Achlama, Gundar-Goshen stages a psychological drama about guilt and revenge, about escaping responsibility and about compassion.
fleeing responsibility and about compassion that shows itself in unexpected places. Naomi is not thrilled when she finds herself alone with her one-year-old son Uri and an Arab craftsman in her apartment in Tel Aviv, whom her husband has hired to renovate her balcony. While she is making coffee, there is a sudden commotion in the alley outside the house: a teenager has been killed by a falling hammer. Naomi quickly realizes that her son must have pushed the hammer off the balcony in an unsupervised moment. However, suspicion falls not on the Israeli family, but on the Arab worker. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, born in 1982, studied psychology in Tel Aviv and later film and screenwriting in Jerusalem.
screenwriting in Jerusalem. She has received numerous awards for her short stories, screenplays and short films and lives in Tel Aviv.
In cooperation with the Forum for Jewish Education and Culture and Schauspiel Stuttgart