Critical Praise

Ron Leshem has succeeded in creating an entire world, simply through language.

—David Grossman, author of THE YELLOW WIND

A gripping, viscerally powerful tale.... An alternately grim and blackly comic war/coming-of-age novel.

—Kirkus Reviews

An important novel.... This is a picture of war from a soldier's point of view. Its language is crude, the body count rises, and yet the tenderness of the bonds among the men is extraordinary.

—Library Journal, starred review