Beaufort - Rilegato

Leshem, Ron

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ISBN 10: 0553806823 ISBN 13: 9780553806823

Casa editrice: Delacorte Pr, 2007

Riassunto

The diary of Liraz Liberti, a twenty-one-year-old member of an Israeli commando team stationed at Beaufort, a Crusader fort in southern Lebanon, during the final winter of Israeli occupation, records the experiences of the soldiers as they deal with near-constant bombardment by Hezbollah and wrestle with their feelings about love, sex, family, war, fear, and death. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione

"Evocative, heartbreaking and haunting ... [Israel's] "Red Badge of Courage." Because Leshem, like Stephen Crane, never saw combat, this is not a work of autobiography or observations but one of empathy and reconstruction—and all the stronger for that because the author has deployed both qualities without judgment. Beaufort is that rare thing, a novel of deep moral concern in which sympathetically drawn and beautifully realized characters are allowed to speak for themselves."—Los Angeles Times

“Thirteen young soldiers spring to life with voices at once self-critical and brash, tender and darkly flippant.... Though firsthand accounts and combat memoirs line the shelves of bookstores, Leshem's fiction rivals them in the completeness of his cosmos of war.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Ron Leshem has succeeded in creating an entire world, simply through language.”—David Grossman, author of The Yellow Wind

“A gripping, viscerally powerful tale.... An alternately grim and blackly comic war/coming-of-age novel.”—Kirkus Reviews

“An important novel.... This is a picture of war from a soldier's point of view. Its language is crude, the body count rises, and yet the tenderness of the bonds among the men is extraordinary.”—Library Journal, starred review

L'autore

Ron Leshem is deputy director in charge of programming at Channel Two, Israel’s main commercial television network. Beaufort won the Sapir Prize—Israel’s top literary award—in 2006. The film version of Beaufort, which Leshem coauthored with director Joseph Cedar, won the Berlin International Film Festival’s Silver Bear for Best Director. Leshem lives in Tel Aviv and is at work on his second novel.

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• Editore: Delacorte Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0553806823
• ISBN 13: 9780553806823
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 360