In the spirit of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, PUMPKINFLOWERS is a brilliant writer’s effort to make sense of a peculiar and fraught military conflict, and to assess its historical importance – not only as a force that shaped a generation of Israelis but also as a paradigm for the other contemporary Middle East wars. The book traces the lives of a cadre of young men, against the backdrop of a bewildering and changing Middle East. It recounts dramatic but forgotten events during the 1990s at the Pumpkin, a small military outpost in Lebanon. Matti Friedman's second work of non-fiction is about coming of age in a world of complexity and contradiction. PUMPKINFLOWERS is the true story of a small group of soldiers, including the author, who are sent to secure an isolated hilltop in hostile territory and are changed forever by the experience. PUMPKINFLOWERS Matti Friedman Nonfiction, Algonquin, 2016
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