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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story (2016)

door Matti Friedman

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??A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.? ??The Wall Street Journal
??Friedman??s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O??Brien??s The Things They Carried ?? its Israeli analog.? ??The New York Times Book Review
It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for ??casualties.? Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.


Pumpkinflowers is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer. Part memoir, part reportage, part history, Friedman??s powerful narrative captures the birth of today??s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor and media images can be as important as the battle itself.
Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Tim O??Brien. It is an unfl
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If you are interested in another book about the horrors of war and endless segments about the human collateral damage, then you might enjoy Matti Friedman’s well written memoir. ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today, foreshadowing the chaos of 21stcentury conflicts in the Middle East. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; 'flowers' was the military code word for casualties.Part memoir, part reportage and part haunting elegy for lost youth, award-winning writer Matti Friedman's powerful account follows the band of young soldiers - the author among them - conscripted out of high school into holding this remote outpost, and explores how the task would change them forever. Pumpkinflowers is a lyrical yet devastating insight into the day-to-day realities of war, and a powerful coming-of-age narrative. Raw and beautifully rendered, this essential chronicle casts an unfl inching look at the nature of modern warfare, in which there is never a clear victor and innocence is not all that is lost.
  conflict | Aug 23, 2022 |
Really enjoyed. Liked how he weaved three different time periods into life at the Pumpkin. Well told - felt like I was on the journey with him. Did not see the ending coming of him in Lebanon. A little talked about part of the Israeli occupation in Lebanon. ( )
  bermandog | Dec 30, 2020 |
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I really enjoyed this book. This book became the basis for many conversations with one of my partners who emigrated from Israel. Friedman has written an excellent first person account of the conflict between Israel and its neighbors. I enjoyed his writing style and wold recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about the politics in the Middle East. ( )
  19vatermit64 | Nov 22, 2020 |
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Powerful account of youthful Israelis maturing, fighting, and dying at a forgotten Lebanon outpost. In this limber, deceptively sparse take on the Middle East's tightening spiral of violence, Friedman combines military history and personal experience on and off the line in deft, observant prose. The narrative is reminiscent of novels by Denis Johnson and Robert Stone, linking combat's violent absurdity to the traumatized perspectives of individual participants. A haunting yet wry tale of young people at war, cursed by political forces beyond their control, that can stand alongside the best narrative nonfiction coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Remarkably educational and heartfelt: Friedman’s experiences provide a critical historical perspective on the changing climate of war in the Middle East, shifting from short official conflicts into longer unwinnable wars full of guerilla tactics and the deliberate creation of media narratives and images. His lyrical writing, attention to detail, and personal honesty draw the reader into empathy along with understanding. Friedman’s memoir deserves wide readership. This superb book is partly a history of the war, partly a personal memoir, and partly a work of political analysis. But mainly it is an effort to tell the story of the young men who fought to defend something “the size of a basketball court”—not all of whom survived. Pumpkinflowers is rich enough to allow different readers to draw their own political conclusions, if they choose to draw them at all. Above all, it is a book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last. In Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story Mr. Friedman has written a top-notch account of this under-analyzed war, persuasively arguing that it heralded a new style of combat in the Middle East, though no one knew it at the time ( )
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Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:

??A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.? ??The Wall Street Journal
??Friedman??s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O??Brien??s The Things They Carried ?? its Israeli analog.? ??The New York Times Book Review
It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for ??casualties.? Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.


Pumpkinflowers is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer. Part memoir, part reportage, part history, Friedman??s powerful narrative captures the birth of today??s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor and media images can be as important as the battle itself.
Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Tim O??Brien. It is an unfl

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