Beaufort
By: Ron Leshem ; translated from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781846551307; 9781846551536
Subjects: Beaufort Castle (Lebanon); Roman; Nahostkonflikt <Motiv>; Soldiers; History; Arab-Israeli conflict; Foreign relations; Fiction
Description: Beaufort is at once a searing coming-ofage story and a novel for our times - one of the most powerful, visceral portraits of the horror, camaraderie, and absurdity of war in modern fiction." "Beaufort. To the handful of Israeli soldiers occupying the ancient crusader fortress. it is a little slice of hell - a forbidding, fear-soaked enclave perched atop two acres of land in southern Lebanon, surrounded by an enemy they cannot see. And to the thirteen young men in his command, twenty-one-year-old Lieutenant Liraz "Erez" Liberti is a taskmaster, confessor, and the only hope in the face of attacks that come out of nowhere and missions seemingly designed to get them all killed.
Notes: Translated from the Hebrew.