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
在办公室又重温了一遍这本书,感觉很真实,第一次看近代战争的样貌,好像有惨烈的画面,和中国战争刻画的不同的人性和感情。 结局里真是悲喜交加,虽然不知道有多少事实,还是很感动,感觉并没有过分的煽情,男主的形象加很多分,很能激发荷尔蒙分泌。无论如何,在战争小说中...
评分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...
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、...
评分说道伊拉克战争,我就想起了2003年的时候,我还在家里悠闲的看着电视的时候,新闻报道说美国队伊拉克发动了战争,当时看着没什么感觉,反正没有发生在自己国家。10年之后,长大了,对战争有了新的一层认识。战争不管是对受害的国家而言,还是对发动的国家而言,每一个参与到战...
能把战场写的这么郭敬明也是不多见
评分我以前认识的VET,不论去没去过IRAQ,都认为那里是个SHITHOLE。
评分觉得学完战争文学后就对这种题材情有独钟啊……
评分能把战场写的这么郭敬明也是不多见
评分能把战场写的这么郭敬明也是不多见
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