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The People of Forever are not Afraid
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Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for FictionYael, Avishag and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty village in Israel. They attend high school, gossip about boys, and try to find ways to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. Then at eighteen they are conscripted into the army. Yael trains marksmen, Avishag stands guard watching refugees throw themselves at barbed-wire fences and Lea, posted at a checkpoint, imagines the stories behind the familiar faces that pass by her day after day. All of them live in that single intense second before danger erupts, all of them trying to survive however they can…Shortlisted for The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
Additional information
| Weight | 0.235 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 336 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2014-5-1 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099578689 |
| About The Author | Shani Boianjiu was born in 1987 in Jerusalem, and she served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years. Her fiction has been published in Vice magazine, Zoetrope and the New Yorker. Shani is the youngest recipient ever of the US National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 Award. She lives in Israel. This is her first novel. |
A searing novel |
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| Other text | In a humorous and beguiling deadpan, Boianjiu conveys the fleeting, vanishing experience of hovering between adolescence and adulthood, at the same time as providing a rare portrait of young Israelis being minced through military service |
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