The people of forever are not afraid : a novel
During compulsory service in the Israeli army, three young women find their lives changing in unpredictable ways.
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- ISBN: 0385676891
- ISBN: 9780385676892
- Physical Description 338 pages
- Publisher Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2012]
- Copyright ©2012
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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
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Summary
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
Shani Boianjiu's stunning debut gives us a world where girls in the Israeli Defense Forces wait, endlessly--for womanhood, orders, war, peace. Yael trains marksmen and flirts with boys. Avishag stands guard, watching refugees throw themselves at barbed-wire fences. Lea, posted at a checkpoint, imagines stories behind the familiar faces that pass by her day after day. They gossip about boys and whisper of an ever more violent world just beyond view. They drill, constantly, for a moment that may never come. They live inside that single, intense second just before danger erupts. And they find that their dreams have stranger repercussions than they have been trained to imagine.