Beaufort: A NovelRandom House Publishing Group, 26/12/2007 - 368 páginas By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshem’s debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel’s top award for literature and the basis for a prizewinning film. Charged with brilliance and daring, hypnotic in its intensity, Beaufort is at once a searing coming-of-age 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. All around them, tension crackles in the air. Long stretches of boredom and black humor are punctuated by flashes of terror. And the threat of death is constant. But in their stony haven, Erez and his soldiers have created their own little world, their own rules, their own language. And here Erez listens to his men build castles out of words, telling stories, telling lies, talking incessantly of women, sex, and dead comrades. Until, in the final days of the occupation, Erez and his squad of fed-up, pissed-off, frightened young soldiers are given one last order: a mission that will shatter all remaining illusions—and stand as a testament to the universal, gut-wrenching futility of war. The basis for the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
afraid Afula ambush answered anymore army asked attack Bayliss Beaufort bombs breathe chance chopper commander convoy crazy duty Emilio Erez everything explosive eyes face feel fighters fire friends fuck Furman girl girlfriend going Golan Heights guard post guys hand happened head hear Hezbollah inside Israel kids killed kind kippa Kiryat Shmona knew laugh Lebanese Lebanon Lila Litani River look Marjayoun minutes missile morning mortar shells Nakpadon never night officer okay Oshri outpost piss pulled quiet River road Safari Sea of Galilee Sheinkin Street shit Shlomo Artzi shoot shouted silence sitting sleep smile soldiers someone Spitzer squad stay stood stop suddenly sure talking tank Tel Aviv tell terrorists there's thing thought told took transmitter trucks trying waiting walk watched What's wounded Yeah Zitlawi
Passagens conhecidas
Página 220 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 275 - The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Página 275 - He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper: the Lord is your shade upon your right hand. The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
Página 250 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition : And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Página 249 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host. That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Página 275 - The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever more. I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord.
Página 226 - King of the universe, who has kept us in life, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this day.
Página 275 - My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Página 145 - Blessed are You, God, King of the Universe, who bestows good things upon the guilty, who has bestowed every goodness upon me.