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The People of Forever are not Afraid
by Shani Boianjiu
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Pub Date
7 Feb 2013
| Archive Date
19 May 2013
Description
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Yael, Avishag and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty village in Israel. They attend high school, gossip about boys, and try to find ways to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. Then at eighteen they are conscripted into the army.
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. All of them live in that single intense second before danger erupts, all of them trying to survive however they can…
Shortlisted for The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Yael, Avishag and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty village in Israel. They attend high school, gossip about boys, and try to find ways to alleviate...
Description
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Yael, Avishag and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty village in Israel. They attend high school, gossip about boys, and try to find ways to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. Then at eighteen they are conscripted into the army.
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. All of them live in that single intense second before danger erupts, all of them trying to survive however they can…
Shortlisted for The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
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UK edition - available for readers in the UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada.
UK edition - available for readers in the UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
'How to carry on living while brutality is invading the most intimate
spaces of one’s being is the central concern of The People of Forever
Are Not Afraid, the extraordinary debut novel by Shani Boianjiu… The
People of Forever is a modern anthem for doomed youth, a brilliant
anatomisation of the yearning for normality in a situation that renders
it impossible. Again and again, Boianjiu subverts simplistic ways of
thinking about victims and oppressors in relation to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reminding us that there are heart-rending
casualties on both sides of the divide, even if the forms of wounding
are not equally visible. If you still need convincing, read this book' Financial Times
'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' The 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' Sunday Telegraph
'How to carry on living while brutality is invading the most intimate spaces of one’s being is the central concern of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, the extraordinary debut novel by Shani...
Advance Praise
'How to carry on living while brutality is invading the most intimate
spaces of one’s being is the central concern of The People of Forever
Are Not Afraid, the extraordinary debut novel by Shani Boianjiu… The
People of Forever is a modern anthem for doomed youth, a brilliant
anatomisation of the yearning for normality in a situation that renders
it impossible. Again and again, Boianjiu subverts simplistic ways of
thinking about victims and oppressors in relation to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reminding us that there are heart-rending
casualties on both sides of the divide, even if the forms of wounding
are not equally visible. If you still need convincing, read this book' Financial Times
'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' The 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' Sunday Telegraph
Marketing Plan
A searing first novel about three young women
coming of age experiencing the 'absurdities of life and love on the
precipice of violence' (Vogue)
A searing first novel about three young women
coming of age experiencing the 'absurdities of life and love on the
precipice of violence' (Vogue)
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Ebook |
| ISBN |
9781448139637 |
| PRICE |
£12.98 (GBP)
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Ebook |
| ISBN |
9781448139637 |
| PRICE |
£12.98 (GBP)
|
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