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Not yet twenty, the narrator is posted as a clerk to the army's Command and Staff College, a base crowded with senior officers. She is filling the place of Michaela, who was due to go off to officer training, but shot herself. Soon the newcomer's own life starts to unravel in the base's heavy air. Though it lies at the very centre of Israeli life, the college keeps rules of its own, and teenage girl soldiers and high-ranking officers are drawn into private entanglements that are flattering and frightening by turns, full of empty promises and danger, with the gap in age, rank and experience always present. The closed, secretive base is like a ship riding out a storm in false security, which after two years of service lands on shore the women the girls have become.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

191 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Israel

First published

2005 by Xargol

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789657120545 (original)