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Title

Infiltration / Yehoshua Kenaz ; translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu.

Author

Ḳenaz, Yehoshuʻa.

Publication

South Royalton, Vt. : Zoland Books, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Bilu, Dalya.

Description

593 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Young Israeli Army conscripts with minor disabilities, such as heart murmurs and epilepsy, are sent for basic training. Some come from large cities, some from kibbutzim; some were born in the land that would become Israel, some are new immigrants from Eastern Europe or Arab countries. Set in the 1950's when Israel had been a nation for just a few years and its very existence was under constant threat, Infiltration tells the story of one platoon's experience, a group of soldiers who represent all Israelis, their hopes and ideals, their struggles and deep internal divisions." "Melabbes is determined to stay separate, self-contained from the rigid routines and power plays of military life. Avner is a reckless romantic whose mother worked for the families of the wealthier, Ashkenazi recruits known as "the Jerusalemites." Alon is a proud and patriotic kibbutznik; Miller, a German survivor of the concentration camps; and Micky, a famous soccer player who only recently discovered his physical defect, a heart murmur. Though Infiltration is set in a time and place some fifty years in the past, it is a universal story of loss of innocence, a monumental novel that exposes the darker side of the military process of making men out of boys."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Hitganvut yeḥidim. English

Alternative Title

Hitganvut yeḥidim.

Note

• "First published in Hebrew under the title 'Heart murmur' in 1986 by Am Oved, Tel Aviv"--T.p. verso.

ISBN

1581952058

LCCN

2003009891

OCLC

ocm52178904

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries