Beaufort, a remote and beautiful fort in southern Lebanon dating back to the Crusades, has been an outpost of the Israeli Defence Force for nearly twenty years, and now, for the teenage soldiers who live there presiding over the last moments of Israel's presence in Lebanon, it has become a world of its own, an enclave in the heart of enemy territory where boy soldiers create a state with its own rules and its own unique, outrageous, brutal language. With a critical eye and an empathetic heart, Ron Leshem dishes up a wholly human story that takes place in conditions that are anything but. Fast-paced and brutally honest, unflinching and uproariously funny, Beaufort has been hailed - not only by critics but by the generation of soldiers who served in Lebanon during Israeli occupation - as the true voice of that sobering period.Written as the diary of Liraz (Erez) Liberti, the head of a commando team stationed at Beaufort during the last winter of Israeli occupation, "Beaufort" is a revolutionary and potent look at the futility of war and death, and the courage it takes to put an end to it. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that fires missiles from the surrounding mountains. And while thirteen young men propel the novel and give it life and colour, the real hero of "Beaufort" is fear: contagious, intoxicating, palpable fear, a word they forbid themselves from uttering. "Beaufort" is a devastating portrayal of a generation finding that the values and principles bestowed on them by their parents have betrayed them, and the terrifying nihilistic reality of Middle Eastern conflict. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

罗恩•莱瑟姆 （Ron Leshem）

以色列著名作家、记者、电视台导演、资深编辑。2000年秋，以记者身份赴加沙地带报道一名遇害士兵的追悼会，偶识曾驻扎黎巴嫩美丽堡的在役士兵罗特姆，受其生活和种种遭遇触动，写成《美丽堡》。

2005年《美丽堡》出版，轰动一时，夺得以色列文坛最高荣誉萨丕尔文学奖，并迅速被翻译成16种文字。由小说改编的同名电影获得柏林国际电影节银熊奖和奥斯卡最佳外语片奖提名。