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title: "Pumpkinflowers"
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# Pumpkinflowers

**Brand:** matti friedman
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Contemplating life in a meaningless war
  

*by L***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2023*

Matti Friedman’s Pumpkinflowers unfolds in the mid-1990s on a hilltop in southern Lebanon in the last years of the Lebanon war. Arriving there, young, inexperienced recruits like Matti are met with a constant threat from the missiles, mines, and snipers, the danger growing more pointless as the pullout is imminent. There is no combat-style battle, instead, Matti’s buddies are steadily wounded or killed in brutal and bizarre circumstances. What can one learn from such a harrowing experience?“Perception of the thinness of line between here and gone,” Friedman writes, “is the debt I owe that place, and the reason I am grateful for my time there."There are many similarly deep observations on life from someone who was facing death on a daily basis. While Friedman's political commentary on the events he had experienced feel somewhat dated today, his deeply personal account of engagement in a war that lost its meaning is profoundly moving.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    One of the most thought-provoking reads of 2016
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2016*

This is one of the best books produced in 2016. Matti Friedman writes about Israel, the Middle East, and the political and personal implications of war from a unique perspective. Born in Canada and an immigrant to Israel as a teenager, Friedman shares his skepticism towards Israel's military involvement in Lebanon. As a former combat soldier in the Israel/Lebanon conflict that occurred in the 90s and current reservist, Friedman honestly and poignantly paints a picture of a country whose attitude towards war and the military spans from the anti-war mothers of the kibbutzim, to the apolitical teenage soldiers who are performing their compulsory duties as members of a diverse set of troops, to right-wingers who justify war with keeping the country safe from terrorists. It is indeed a complicated country - and while all characters, including the author, share different views of militarism and war, all agree on one common goal: the survival of the world's only Jewish state.As Western consumers of news (whom Friedman is clearly addressing as his audience in this book), we are constantly inundated with images of the Middle East and Israel. Generally, progressive news outlets tend to view Israel's military operations unfavorably - that is, Israel's military tactics are generally criticized, and consumers of the news are not really getting the full picture of the Middle East in general, or Israel's relationship to it. Friedman also has a journalistic background and has covered Israel while working for the Associated Press. These experiences, while not mentioned explicitly in the book, I believe served as motivating factors for the subject matter of this text.The most powerful portion of this text (to me) was the last, when Friedman recounts a visit he took to Lebanon, where he was stationed whilst a soldier in the IDF. As an Israeli/Canadian dual citizen, he could only enter into Lebanon as a Canadian, and had to hide throughout his visit 1) his Jewish identity; 2) his Israeli citizenship; and 3) his service to the IDF. The most powerful part is when he was on his way to the Pumpkin (the outpost where he was stationed in the 90s) in southern Lebanon, and remarks that he "had traveled 12,000 miles (from Toronto) to arrive 20 miles from" where his family's home was located in northern Israel. This gives you a real sense of how serious (and sad) the divide of a border can truly be, especially in a place as volatile as the Middle East.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Real life account
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2023*

I learned a lot about an important war in my country’s history that our nation does not even recognize as having been a real war. Well written. Hard to put down.

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