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Ron Leshem
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New in Hardcover:
BEAUFORT
Delacorte Press
ISBN: 9780553806823
(On Sale December 26, 2007)
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By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshe'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.
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Winners of the ARC Mailing
The following 10 readers have been selected to read BEAUFORT by Ron Leshem:
- Carol from Bear, DE
- Donna from Concord, MA
- Heather from Newburgh, IN
- Kathryn from Bethel, CT
- Marie from Middletown, RI
- Norine from New Rochelle, NY
- Patricia from Baltimore, MD
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- Susan from Wynnewood, PA
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