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.
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
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...
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能把战场写的这么郭敬明也是不多见
评分觉得学完战争文学后就对这种题材情有独钟啊……
评分关于美国士兵的书是第一次看,对于战后创伤有了更多的了解。战争是恐怖的。
评分觉得学完战争文学后就对这种题材情有独钟啊……
评分关于美国士兵的书是第一次看,对于战后创伤有了更多的了解。战争是恐怖的。
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