Beaufort

Original Israeli edition
Author	Ron Leshem
Original title	Im Yesh Gan Eden (If There Is a heaven)
Translator	Evan Fallenberg
Language	Hebrew
Genre	War novel; first-person narrative
Publisher	Zmora Bitan (Hebrew); Random House (English)
Publication date	2005
Publication place	Israel
Published in English	2007
Media type	Print
ISBN	978-0-553-80682-3 (US edition) 978-0099516729 (British edition)
OCLC	162145855
Dewey Decimal	892.4/36 22
LC Class	PJ5055.29.E852 I4213 2008

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 Israel Defense Forces 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.

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

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

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