Adjusting Sights

A quarter of a century after 1973, the narrator returns in memory to the Golan Heights, where he served as a reservist tank gunner while studying at a yeshiva. His recollections do not follow the calendar: scenes of the fighting and of the days spent in the Syrian enclave alternate with his childhood in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit Mazmil and his regular army service. Some events he witnessed, others reach him through comrades. Running beneath the precise, often harsh accounts of battle is the absence of his best friend, Dov Indig, who was lost in the war, and the narrator's sense that a vow he made under fire is a debt he must still repay.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

167 pages in the original

Genres

War, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel, Syria, 1973

First published

1999 by Yedioth Ahronoth / Sifrei Aliyat Hagag

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789654486231 (original)

9781902881706 (Toby Press, United States)

9781592641277 (Toby Press, United States)

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