Matches
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alan Kaufman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780316106641
Subjects: Soldiers; Fiction; Military History
Description: "Soldiers in the Gaza Strip always keep a bullet for themselves in case of capture. This reality lurks behind the swagger and bravado of young men armed to the teeth with guns and fear. Matches propels the reader into the life and mind of one such man, a young American member of the Israel Defense Forces. Patrolling the streets of the West Bank in the dead of night, playing a high-stakes off-duty game of Risk with his fellow soldiers, making illicit love to the wife of his best friend, Nathan Falk lives each moment with an increasing awareness of the arbitrary boundary between life and death. His story, told with the fierce intensity and poetic intimacy of a memoir, is an indelible portrait of the damage war does to the soul of a man."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Jewish wars; title: What do you know?; title: Risk; title: G-beat; title: Goodbye house; title: Why not?; title: pt. 2. The Bedouin; title: pt. 3. The best soldier in a war; title: Captain Johnson; title: Battle of the bands; title: The spokesman; title: pt. 4. Horse sale; title: Fishing; title: Blame.