The People of Forever are not Afraid
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The People of Forever are not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
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.
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 *
A memorably bold novel.. Somewhere between the sardonic humour of Etgar Keret and the epic storytelling of David Grossman, Boianjiu has created a brave, beautiful, political literature that is entirely her own -- Catherine Taylor * Sunday Telegraph *
This unflinching debut novel depicts with depth and acuity the disorientating effects of fear on young minds... The girls are often lost for words, but the author successfully finds a voice to express the dehumanising horror of warfare in this fragmented plot held together with a passionate, poetic eloquence -- Anita Sethi * Observer *
[Boianjiu’s] voice is distinct. It’s confident, raw, amusing — a lot like her women * New York Times *
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 *
A memorably bold novel.. Somewhere between the sardonic humour of Etgar Keret and the epic storytelling of David Grossman, Boianjiu has created a brave, beautiful, political literature that is entirely her own -- Catherine Taylor * Sunday Telegraph *
This unflinching debut novel depicts with depth and acuity the disorientating effects of fear on young minds... The girls are often lost for words, but the author successfully finds a voice to express the dehumanising horror of warfare in this fragmented plot held together with a passionate, poetic eloquence -- Anita Sethi * Observer *
[Boianjiu’s] voice is distinct. It’s confident, raw, amusing — a lot like her women * New York Times *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099578680 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099578689 |
| Title | The People of Forever are not Afraid |
| Author | Shani Boianjiu |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of JW3 Readers Prize 2014 (UK), Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2014 (UK), Long-listed for Womens Prize for Fiction 2013 (UK) |
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