Books by Shani Boianjiu
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English
review 1: I found much to relate to, but this book was a little disappointing. Boianjiu is fond of hyperbole and as the book progresses allows this to interfere more and more with the strict realism which is so compelling. The fantasies of the characters, and the violence that they witness...
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English
review 1: A very strange and engrossing book about young women serving in the Israeli military. Their experiences border on the strange and the devastating, and the main characters respond differently to the stress of being put in the middle of the age old conflict in the Middle East. Th...
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English
review 1: Somewhere in my American-centric brain I think I expected this book to have a "Persepolis" feel, but it really didn't. It was certainly a glimpse into a similar-but-different world than my own and I liked that.My biggest disappointment with this book is that all the characters s...