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The People of Forever are not Afraid

The People of Forever are not Afraid

by ShaniBoianjiu (Author)

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    Hardcover 2013

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Synopsis

Lea, Avishag and Yael are school friends in a small town in northern Israel. During dull lessons they play the game Exquisite Corpse and daydream about the boys they fancy. When they hit eighteen they are conscripted into the army. Stuck on checkpoint duty with fellow soldiers she hates, Lea relieves her boredom by creating an imaginary family life for a dishevelled Palestinian man that passes every day; Yael takes to sleeping with a boy she is training, in between breaking up and getting back together with her boyfriend at home; and Avishag's days are spent guarding the Egyptian border, catching smugglers and watching Sudanese refugees throw themselves on the barbed wire fence. They wait in the dust for something to happen, caught in that single, intense second before danger erupts.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 07 Feb 2013
ISBN 10: 1781090092
ISBN 13: 9781781090091
Book Overview: Searing first novel about three young women coming of age experiencing the 'absurdities of life and love on the precipice of violence' (Vogue)

Media Reviews
A searing novel -- Catherine Taylor Guardian 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 -- Robert Collins Sunday Times More full of life than any young writer I've come across in a long time. -- Nicole Krauss, author of THE HISTORY OF LOVE Reads like it was written in bullets, tear gas, road flares and love. I demand another book from her, immediately. -- Alexander Chee, author of EDINBURGH The focus of Boianjiu's book isn't those horrible events: it is the tension that exists just outside the line of fire, the moment before a crisis erupts. Boianjiu's best writing happens as the book progresses, when the teens let their minds wander into what they have experienced, and imagine an apocalyptic future for their country -- Sheera Frenkel The Times
Author Bio
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.