Description: By turns subversive and darkly comic, Leshem's debut novel is an international literary sensation. Charged with brilliance and daring, "Beaufort" is at once a searing coming-of-age story and a novel for the times--a powerful, visceral portrait of the horror, camaraderie, and absurdity of war.
Review Quotes: "Evocative, heartbreaking and haunting ... [Israel's] "Red Badge of Courage." Because Leshem, like Stephen Crane, never saw combat, this is not a work of autobiography or observations but one of empathy and reconstruction--and all the stronger for that because the author has deployed both qualities without judgment. Beaufort is that rare thing, a novel of deep moral concern in which sympathetically drawn and beautifully realized characters are allowed to speak for themselves."--Los Angeles Times
"Thirteen young soldiers spring to life with voices at once self-critical and brash, tender and darkly flippant.... Though firsthand accounts and combat memoirs line the shelves of bookstores, Leshem's fiction rivals them in the completeness of his cosmos of war."--San Francisco Chronicle "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 "Beaufort is that rare thing, a novel of deep moral concern in which sympathetically drawn and beautifully realized characters are allowed to speak for themselves." --Chicago Tribune "A book we couldn't put down." --Penthouse