The People of Forever Are Not Afraid - Shani Boianjiu • BookLikes (ISBN:9781781090091)

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

by: Shani Boianjiu (author)

Lea, Navishag and Yael are school friends in a nondescript town in Israel. During dull lessons they play their invented game Exquisite Corpse and fantasise about the boys they fancy. When they hit eighteen they are conscripted into the army.

Marooned on checkpoint duty with a bunch of morons, Lea relieves her boredom by creating an invented family life for a dishevelled Palestinian man she sees everyday at the border; Yael takes to sleeping with the men she is training, in between breaking up and getting back together with her wimpish boyfriend at home; and Navishag's days are dogged by memories of her brother, Dan, who committed suicide after leaving the army. They wait in the dust for something to happen.

Energetic, relentless, and with a sharp caustic humour, The People of Forever are not Afraid captures that single, intense second just before danger erupts. - See more at: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/shani-boianjiu/the-people-of-forever-are-not-afraid-9781781090091.aspx#sthash.ioXKEgbu.dpuf

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Format: papier

ISBN: 9781781090091

Publish date: 15 lutego 2013

Publisher: Hogarth

Pages no: 320

Edition language: Polski

Category:

Young Adult, Literature, Cultural, Historical Fiction, Adult, War, Jewish, Coming Of Age, Contemporary, Israel

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Das also ist des Pudels Kern rated it

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Hauptfiguren sind Yael, Lea und Avishag. Der umgangssprachliche Stil zu Beginn ging mir leider all zu bald auf den Keks, die Autorin wechselt mehrmals sowohl die Erzähl- also auch die Erzählerperspektive. Brauchte eine gute Zeit, fast die Hälfte des Buches, um den Durchblick zu bekommen. Das Ganze...

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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid follows three girls in their required army enlistment. They enter as young children and emerge as women, forever changing the way they think and act.The three girls do have very different personalities, which makes the story interesting. However, it switches betw...

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Kira rated it

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I went into this book with high expectations, hoping to get caught up in a story of a young girl experiencing the mandatory two years of military service required of both men and women in Israel. Prior to reading the synopsis I didn't even know that went on. I do not know much about life in modern-d...

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2.5 starsI was excited to get a copy of this book from the BEA selection on NetGalley. I don’t usually read this genre of books, but I had a personal interest in the subject matter. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid is the story of three childhood friends from a small village in the north of Isra...

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