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This week we feature an excerpt from Shani Boianjiu\\u2019s novel, \\u201cThe People of Forever Are Not Afraid,\\u201d published in 2012 in English.
The novel is told in a series of vignettes narrated by three young Israeli women \\u2013 Lea, Avishag and Yael \\u2013 following their high school years in a small northern village, through their enlistment in the Israeli Defence Force where they train marksmen, guard a border and man a checkpoint. The novel follows them into their twenties.
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Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, Hogarth; First Edition (September 11, 2012)
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