The People of Forever are not Afraid

Hardcover | 7 February 2013

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Lea, Navishag and Yael are school friends in a nondescript town in Israel. During dull lessons they play their invented game Exquisite Corpse and fantasise about the boys they fancy. When they hit eighteen they are conscripted into the army. Marooned on checkpoint duty with a bunch of morons, Lea relieves her boredom by creating an invented family life for a dishevelled Palestinian man she sees everyday at the border; Yael takes to sleeping with the men she is training, in between breaking up and getting back together with her wimpish boyfriend at home; and Navishag's days are dogged by memories of her brother, Dan, who committed suicide after leaving the army. They wait in the dust for something to happen. Energetic, relentless, and with a sharp caustic humour, The People of Forever are Not Afraid captures that single, intense second just before danger erupts.

Industry Reviews

"A searing novel" -- Catherine Taylor Guardian "In a humorous and beguiling deadpan, Boianjiu conveys the fleeting, vanishing experience of hovering between adolescence and adulthood, at the same time as providing a rare portrait of young Israelis being minced through military service" -- Robert Collins Sunday Times "More full of life than any young writer I've come across in a long time." -- Nicole Krauss, author of THE HISTORY OF LOVE "Reads like it was written in bullets, tear gas, road flares and love. I demand another book from her, immediately." -- Alexander Chee, author of EDINBURGH "The focus of Boianjiu's book isn't those horrible events: it is the tension that exists just outside the line of fire, the moment before a crisis erupts. Boianjiu's best writing happens as the book progresses, when the teens let their minds wander into what they have experienced, and imagine an apocalyptic future for their country" -- Sheera Frenkel The Times

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