{"product_id":"9781616206918","title":"Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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.”\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Friedman’s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O’Brien’s \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e — its Israeli analog.”\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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; \u003ci\u003eflowers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePumpkinflowers\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003ePumpkinflowers\u003c\/i\u003e will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Tim O’Brien. It is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058489770224,"sku":"9781616206918","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616206918_p0.jpg?v=1769904370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616206918","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}