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A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.
In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined.
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.
Winner of the 2013 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Winner of the 2012 Guardian First Book Award
2012 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2012
Kevin Powers was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar. This is his first novel.
觉得学完战争文学后就对这种题材情有独钟啊……
评分战争是残酷的,对于军人的心理创伤常人无法想象。可惜的是军人为了国家的牺牲往往只是源于politician的贪婪。
评分作者在书中以第一人称Bart分两条时间线叙述在伊拉克战争时和休假及退役后的生活。两个年轻人Bart21岁,Murph18岁,都为生存而战,详细的描述了他们在伊拉克作战的艰苦环境。战争是可怕的,军人也有权害怕,他们曾说宁愿美国马上投降,只希望自己远离这一切,这是人之常情。在战争中经常会看到战友死去,大多时候是听说某连死去了一个人,觉得很遥远,而当一个人死在M身旁时一切都变了,M心理极度恐惧与厌恶战争,尤其是当那个女医生也被炸死时,他彻底“死去”,裸奔出军营,最后被伊拉克人们残忍杀害,Bart找到他时隐瞒了这些,将他的尸体抛入河中。M的妈妈坚持要求真相,B被调查,为他就那么替她做了决定而付出牢狱1000多天的代价。B从战争中回来时,经历了很久封闭的生活,一直在逃避,战争对人的心理创伤是多么大啊
评分我以前认识的VET,不论去没去过IRAQ,都认为那里是个SHITHOLE。
评分就不要妄想诗人能给你写出什么故事性
从开始到结尾我一直都是皱着眉看的,从不解到最后的懂得,不解为什么人们要发动战争,但不可否认的是,这些人无论生死,都用自己的鲜血和无畏讽刺了战争的残酷,战争坟地成了我心头永远翻不过去的一页。在道德悖论之下,战争的荒谬和残酷被表露无遗,。小说当中就是激烈的对战...
评分 评分作者在书中以第一人称Bart分两条时间线叙述在伊拉克战争时和休假及退役后的生活。两个年轻人Bart21岁,Murph18岁,都为生存而战。 书中详细的描述了他们在伊拉克作战的艰苦环境,气候非常不适应,眼中尽是黄土,长时间在把守岗位,超强度的负荷,远离亲人、爱人、...
评分作者用柔情来记录残酷的战争,用冷静来叙述疯狂的战争。他告诉我们人性本善。斯特林跟巴特尔、默夫说“你们俩是我的人了”,我愿意相信这个时候斯特尔在心底用了百分百的承诺,对他们会做尽可能的保护;巴特尔一直羞于自己的不敢承担,但被突如其来的炮弹波冲击间歇喊出口地却...
评分看完以后觉得很……一种很难形容的感觉。我一直坚持,在某种意义上讲,战争其实是没有赢家的,不管最后的结果是什么,战争的哪一方都会失去很多。 这本书从美军角度讲故事,在伊拉克,即使地形不熟悉也没有人民战争的海洋,理论上说,美军也占有优势。一个强大国家的配备完整训...
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