About The Knight Must Die by Aviv Geva
ISRAELI BESTSELLER NOW IN ENGLISH!
“Have you ever asked yourselves if you believe in love at first sight? I never asked and was never eager to find out. I was living in a world where my biggest challenges surrounded work, whether or not to call a specific girl, loving my boss, hating her, or ignoring her. Dying to fuck her on the conference room table or up against the photocopier in the corridor, not capable of touching her with a guide dog for the blind — regular and mundane matters of any normal person in his twenties. It never occurred to me that I would concern myself with fateful questions, questions of life and death. I certainly didn’t imagine that this would be my life or death. I most definitely didn’t imagine that I would choose death. But if I hadn’t been preoccupied with choosing the preferable way of dying, it seems I would never have known if there is such a thing as love at first sight or not. Were it not for the intervention of the God of Fates himself, I would have been just another guy who had never felt anything in his life, who never experienced the most enchanted moment of all. Suddenly, every refusal of hers is interpreted as a nod. Every receding step seems like lips drawing closer for a kiss. There blows the Goddess of Love and Emotion and a fix of her hair makes your heart skip a beat. A fraction of a smile is everything you could ever wish for. And so, when you but allow this wandering spirit in front of you to acknowledge that this very moment the moon is shining down on the most beautiful evening of her life, you suddenly understand that all the rejections in your life so far have been nothing but pleading smiles, that knew deep down in their hearts that your love wasn’t meant for them, but for her alone.
One thing is certain, no matter how much you will be told otherwise. Behind every common womaniser stands a woman who has ripped his heart apart.”
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“My biggest luck in life was that no publishing-house wanted to publish my books. We’ll get there in a bit. But first let me ask you this…
Imagine you’re in a really good relationship, everything’s really good and nice and you love each other, but they promise you that with someone else it would be ‘the love of your life’. If they swore to you that this was the case, how many of you would get up and leave?
In Dr. Seuss’s book ‘The Cat in the Hat’, the children are left alone at home. Being bored, they want to do something fun. But they mustn’t, it is forbidden… Then who appears out of nowhere? The cat in the hat! He fulfils everything they asked for despite the fact that the fish in the jar warns the children that their mother will be very angry!
Throughout our entire lives we want and ask from the universe or from God all sorts of things. To fulfil dreams, to realize fantasies. But most of the time we are too afraid or rely on the fears of others. ‘But how?’, ‘But it’s impossible’, ‘But how many succeed??’
Luckily, my body spoke for me. The truth is that they immediately rushed to reassure me that thyroid cancer is considered a ‘really good’ cancer with 94% recovery if they detect it on time, and therefore only after a few years the penny dropped.
One day I just asked myself, how many people die in car accidents all over the world in one day? Completely normal people who got up in the morning for another routine day and didn’t come back home. Hundreds? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? How many people woke up to another ‘normal’ day and received news that changed their lives forever or got a stroke in the middle of the street?
I was a lawyer. I Hated myself. Hated my life. I started writing totally ‘by chance’, as they say. A former screenwriter that studied with me in my first law degree thought that I was talented and that I should give it a try. I wrote about thirty pages and forgot all about it. Two years later, again ‘by chance’ of course, I met this girl I knew years before and that was now some kind of psychic. After two minutes of small-talk she suddenly asked out of the blue – “Maybe you wrote something?”. At first I said no, because I didn’t even remember it, but then I told her that in fact I did. “That’s your purpose in life,” she immediately replied, “you’ll be a great Author.”
That conversation totally ‘flipped me over’ because there wasn’t the slightest chance she could have known about it.
As time went by I completed my first novel, but no publisher wanted it. An unknown writer, not a celebrity or something like that, why should they take a chance?
But I wasn’t going to give up. And despite the fact that I was already quite respectful divorce-mediation lawyer and even taught divorce-mediation in Bar-Ilan university, I took a chair and a folding table, and sat in the middle of the main street of Tel-Aviv selling my book to passers-by, when all my surrounding thought I got fucked up in the head…
But that wasn’t the hardest part. Even though I started getting very good reviews and letters from readers in social media, I couldn’t have my books be sold at bookstores because the distributors didn’t want to take a chance with a self-published book.
It took as much as three years, but eventually people started asking for my book at the bookstores. Within two more years my first novel became a best-seller, and just recently I have published my fifth book.
All of us have an unfulfilled dream, ambition or desire. All of us. And All of us can get a stroke in the middle of the street right now.
And so, the only question to be asked is – what are you waiting for??
I hope you’ll enjoy my writings.
With lots of love,
Aviv.”