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From the best-selling author of The Solitude of Prime Volumes, a searing book of warfare and the voyage from youngsters into manhood. In Paolo Giordano's highly anticipated new book, a platoon of teenagers and one female soldier leaves Italy for one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Forward Operating Foundation (FOB) in the Gulistan district of Afghanistan is nothing but an exposed sandpit - scorched by inescapable sun rays and deadly mortar open fire. Each member in the platoon manages the toxic mixture of boredom and fear that is life at the FOB in his own way. Brash Cederna shamelessly picks on the virgin Ietri. Giulia Zampieri apparently navigates this male-dominated world easily - until two male comrades start vying on her behalf attention. And for medical official Alessandro Egitto, the FOB provides as a getaway from a genuine life even more threatening than one fought with guns. At night, lying on their mattresses, they feel the beat of their own hearts, the ceaseless activity of our body. However when a much-debated quest should go devastatingly awry, the soldiers find their lives modified in an instant. A heartrending, redemptive report about brotherhood and family, modern warfare and the wars we wage with ourselves, Paolo Giordano's visceral book reminds us what it is usually to be human.
