Beaufort
Author	Ron Leshem
Original title	'Im Yesh Gan Eden (If there is a Heaven)
Translator	Evan Fallenberg
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew
Genre(s)	War novel; first-person narrative
Publisher	Zmora Bitan (Hebrew); Random House (English)
Publication date	2005
Published in English	2007
Media type	Print ()
ISBN	978-0-553-80682-3 (US edition) 978-0099516729 (British edition)
OCLC Number	162145855
Dewey Decimal	892.4/36 22
LC Classification	PJ5055.29.E852 I4213 2008
Preceded by	(—)

Beaufort (English translation of אם יש גן עדן; in Hebrew: If there's a Heaven) ; is the first novel by Israeli author and media professional Ron Leshem. The work was initially published in 2005 and in English translation under this title in 2007. The novel was the basis for the 2007 Academy Award-nominated film Beaufort.

Beaufort is about an IDF unit stationed at the Beaufort Castle, Lebanon post in Southern Lebanon during the South Lebanon conflict. It takes the form of a narrative written by the unit's commander, Liraz Librati, who was the last commander of the Beaufort castle before the Israeli withdrawal in 2000.

The Hebrew original of Beaufort won Israel's 2006 Sapir Prize for Literature and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature.

[edit] Bibliography

• Ron Leshem, Im yesh gan eden. Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan Publishing (2005)
• " " Beaufort. New York: Random House (2007), translation: Evan Fallenberg
• " " Beaufort. London: Harvill Secker, (2008) British English edition

[edit] External links

• Beaufort synopsis at Random House, Inc.
• Reviewed by Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

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