The People of Forever are not Afraid
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The People of Forever are not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
Lea, Avishag and Yael are school friends in a small town in northern Israel. 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;
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 *
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 *
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 | 9781781090091 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781090092 |
| Title | The People of Forever are not Afraid |
| Author | Shani Boianjiu |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| 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) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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