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The People of Forever are Not Afraid Lea, Avishag and Yael are school friends in a small town in northern Israel. During dull lessons they play the game Exquisite Corpse and daydream about the boys they fancy. When they hit eighteen they are conscripted into the army. Full description
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"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)
"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)
"Unique and piercing... Reading it feels like having your heart sawn in two." (Etgar Keret, author of SUDDENLY, A KNOCK ON THE DOOR)
"[Boianjiu’s] voice is distinct. It’s confident, raw, amusing — a lot like her women" (New York Times)
"In this Bildungsroman, life in the army initiates a metamorphosis from girl to woman...Boianjiu’s depiction of...the psyches of these young women is fascinating... The prose [reads] alternately like a nightmare and a dream, but this feverish indecision is what gives it its power" (Economist)
"The People of Forever Are Not Afraid is... carefully wrought, consciously structured, creatively imagined" (The New Republic)
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"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)
"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)
"Unique and piercing... Reading it feels like having your heart sawn in two." (Etgar Keret, author of SUDDENLY, A KNOCK ON THE DOOR)
"[Boianjiu’s] voice is distinct. It’s confident, raw, amusing — a lot like her women" (New York Times)
"In this Bildungsroman, life in the army initiates a metamorphosis from girl to woman...Boianjiu’s depiction of...the psyches of these young women is fascinating... The prose [reads] alternately like a nightmare and a dream, but this feverish indecision is what gives it its power" (Economist)
"The People of Forever Are Not Afraid is... carefully wrought, consciously structured, creatively imagined" (The New Republic)
Searing first novel about three young women coming of age experiencing the 'absurdities of life and love on the precipice of violence' (Vogue)
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- PublisherHogarth
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1781090092
- ISBN 13 9781781090091
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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