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.
这应该是关于伊拉克战争最有深意的一部小说了,节奏上的舒缓但是并不缓慢。主人公的冷静,节奏的舒缓反衬战争的可怕,精准的射击,很刺激。更表现伊拉克战争的残酷。战争永远是这个世上最不正义的事情,不知道美国在为了自己的利益而发动战争的时候,有没有想过那些被战争摧毁...
評分文不对题,无须在意 作者用如梦呓般迷蒙的语调,勾勒出残酷的战争画面,整个的伊拉克战场,像笼罩在厚重的浓雾里,压抑地透不过气来,并且这种压抑在毫无知觉的时候一点点加深,等到反应过来时,早已陷入其中。 就我而言,这部小说显然是让人不舒服的。因为它引起的不仅仅是对...
評分文/夏丽柠 从美国本土去伊拉克,如果走水路,要穿过大西洋、经过好望角、马达加斯加、印度洋和波斯湾,路程超过一万公里。从2003年开始,如此遥远的两个国家名字却紧密地联系在了一起,一场旷日持久的战争,直至2011年最后一批驻伊拉克美军撤离才宣告结束。然而,战争留在两国...
評分作为一个资深小说迷,在小说阅读的时候熬过了冗长的一天,心中留下的除了战争的残酷与现代人的无奈,更多的是一种人性的挣扎,一种超越恐惧的绝望,如果摆脱价值观的束缚,我们所能够祭奠的便只有屠戮带来的快感。个人还是喜欢这种象征性的表现手法,表达的思想很多,看的时候...
覺得學完戰爭文學後就對這種題材情有獨鍾啊……
评分我以前認識的VET,不論去沒去過IRAQ,都認為那裏是個SHITHOLE。
评分戰爭是殘酷的,對於軍人的心理創傷常人無法想象。可惜的是軍人為瞭國傢的犧牲往往隻是源於politician的貪婪。
评分充滿人性的戰爭反思
评分能把戰場寫的這麼郭敬明也是不多見
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