The People of Forever Are Not Afraid The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

A Novel

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Publisher Description

A “searing debut” about three young women coming of age, experiencing “the absurdities of life and love on the precipice of violence” (Vogue)
 
   Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in unpredictable ways, influencing the women they become and the friendship that they struggle to sustain. Yael trains marksmen and flirts with boys. Avishag stands guard, watching refugees throw themselves at barbed-wire fences. Lea, posted at a checkpoint, imagines the stories behind the familiar faces that pass by her day after day. They gossip about boys and whisper of an ever more violent world just beyond view. They drill, constantly, for a moment that may never come. They live inside that single, intense second just before danger erupts.
   In a relentlessly energetic and arresting voice marked by humor and fierce intelligence, Shani Boianjiu, winner of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35,” creates an unforgettably intense world, capturing that unique time in a young woman's life when a single moment can change everything.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2012
September 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
6.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Rocketgirl56 ,

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

I think this is the dumbest book I ever tried to read. Who cares about some silly female teenagers and their silly thoughts and behavior? NOT I. The story has no continuity, but rather jumps around in both time, place, and characters. One would have to be a Jew or a Palestinian to be able to pronounce the names or even to know which sex they were attached to. The positive reviews I read before selecting this book must have been paid for or written by the author's kinfolk or friends. I regret wasting my time reading 3/4ths of this book before giving it up as a total waste of my time. Do NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON IT. It is TERRIBLE!

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