book – maayan goldman

Back of book by the editor, Ilana Bernstein:

A renowned television editor, the type who can always predict the “next big thing”, finds herself unemployed in a time of social and financial turbulence. She searches for different roles through which she can fill her newly-empty life, and examines her relationships with those around her. Doing that she discovers that under the successful image she once knew hides a woman exposed, a body with no epidermis. A woman clinging to language, to never-ending inner speech, as a protective shield.

Maayan Goldman‘s debut novel for which she has received the ministry of culture and sports literary prize, is a journey of consciousness, an exploration of the stuff hyper-subjective reality is made of. Women Reclining is written as if under a magnifying glass, hand-made lace writing – writing that tries to grow the protagonist a new skin.

Woman Reclining opens a window to the life of a young woman in the city, coping with her wish to “make it” while surviving a cold, digital world.

More about the book:

“Life as Performance”, Hamusssach Literary Magazine
14.8.2019– Review by Naama Israely

“On Female Fertility as a metaphor and a battlefield”
21.7.2019– Essay by Yoni Livneh

“13 books for different periods of your life”, Time Out
12.6.2019– Recommendation by Danna Frank

“What makes ‘Women Reclining’ a meaningful book?”, Romantic Movement
7.5.2019– Recommendation by Ran Ben-Nun

“Feeling empty and bored? This book will speak to you”, Yediot Aharonot
3.5.2019– Review by Yoni Livneh

The freedom to read: 5 books for the holidays”, Yediot Aharonot
21.4.2019– Recommendation by Ran Ben-Nun

Lisa Peretz in Kan Radio
3.4.2019– Conversation with Lisa Peretz

“Woman Reclining” in Alaxon digital magazine
20.3.2019– Prologue

“Woman Reclining: the nightmare version of chic-lit”
19.3.2019– Review by Omri Herzog

“Female Artists sharing their moments of happiness”, At Magazine
3.3.2019– Photo project inspired by “Woman Reclining”, Orit Pnini and Noa Nozik

Asaf Einy and Maayan Goldman: Teen Spirit, Over-sensitivity and First Books, Portfolio
27.2.2019 –Thoughts about “Book Night”: Launching “10 pm sunset” and “Woman Reclining”

Kan Radio (beginning 23:45)
13.2.2019 – Zlil Avraham talks about ‘work’ in “Woman Reclining”

Maayan Goldman chooses three unlovable characters
10.2.2019 –Haaretz Video

“A Radical Suggestion: Women, get some rest”, in Haaretz Arts and Leisure
6.2.2019 –Interview with Gili Izikovich

Kan Radio (beginning 18:55)
23.1.2019 – Interview with Maya Sela and Yuval Avivi

“Woman Reclining” among winners of Up and Coming Authors award, Ministry of Culture, in Ynet
22.1.2019

“Made My Week”, Hamalbisha
17.1.2019 – Recommendation by Shelly Gross

Chosen as “Book of the Week”, Kan Television channel (beginning 34:41)
4.1.2019 – Recommendation by Julia Fermentto

“Woman Reclining” among the books chosen for Book and Library grant, Mifal Hapais
31.12.2018