The Yellow Birds: A Novel
Autor Kevin Powersen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 sep 2012
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National Book Awards (2012), Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize (2012), Indies Choice Book Awards (2013)
"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 Birdsis a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316219365
ISBN-10: 0316219363
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 146 x 222 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316219363
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 146 x 222 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Kevin
Powers
is
the
author
ofThe
Yellow
Birds,
which
won
the
PEN/Hemingway
Award,
the
Guardian
First
Book
Award,
and
was
a
National
Book
Award
Finalist.
He
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
collection
of
poetry.
Recenzii
"A
remarkable
first
novel...The
Yellow
Birdsis
brilliantly
observed
and
deeply
affecting:
at
once
a
freshly
imagined
bildungsroman
about
a
soldier's
coming
of
age,
a
harrowing
story
about
the
friendship
of
two
young
men
trying
to
stay
alive
on
the
battlefield
in
Iraq,
and
a
philosophical
parable
about
the
loss
of
innocence
and
the
uses
of
memory...Extraordinary."—Michiko
Kakutani,New
York
Times
"The Yellow Birdsmight just be the first American literary masterpiece produced by the Iraq war."—Los Angeles Times
"An elegiac, sober, and haunting coming-of-age war story."—TIME
"The first great Iraq War novel."—Darren Reidy,Rolling Stone
"A first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo....Kevin Powers has something to say, something deeply moving about the frailty of man and the brutality of war, and we should all lean closer and listen."—Benjamin Percy,New York Times Book Review
"An exquisite excavation of the war's moral and psychological wreckage. Powers evokes the peculiar smell and feel of the war better than any journalist."—The New Yorker
"Darkly beautiful....How to tell a true war story if you're more a poet than a novelist? Tell it as a poet would. Tell it as Kevin Powers does."—Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
"A novel of grit, grace, and blood by an Iraq war veteran....Kevin Powers moves gracefully between spare, factual description of the soldiers' work to simple, hard-won reflections on the meaning of war."—Ron Charles,Washington Post
"An unusually spare and lyrical war story....The characters are sketched with as much heart as economy...Like the Iraq heat, which 'had the surprising effect of reducing one to tears in an instant,'The Yellow Birdsskulks along, detached and undemanding, until all of a sudden you turn a page and find yourself weeping."—GQ
"TheAll Quiet on the Western Frontof America's Arab wars."—Tom Wolfe
"The Yellow Birdsis harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary."—Ann Patchett
"Veteran Kevin Powers's searing debut novel brings the Iraq War home in compelling detail....The Yellow Birdsis luminous...an indispensable portrait of the Iraq War and its impact of those who fought it."—Men's Journal
"Kevin Powers'The Yellow Birdsis written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, are conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth."—Colm Toibin
"This is a novel I've been waiting for.The Yellow Birdsis born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence."—Alice Sebold
"Compelling, brilliantly written, and heart-breakingly true,The Yellow Birdsbelongs in the same category as Tim O'Brien'sThe Things They Carriedand Norman Mailer'sThe Naked and the Dead. Thus far the definitive novel of our long wars in the Middle East; this book is certain to be read and taught for generations to come."—Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust
"ReadingThe Yellow BirdsI became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard....a superb literary achievement."—Chris Cleave
"Powers has created a powerful work of art that captures the complexity and life altering realities of combat service. This book will endure. Read it and then put it way up on that high rare shelf alongside Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien."—Anthony Swofford
"We haven't just been waiting for a great novel to come out of the Iraq War, our 21stcentury Vietnam; we have also been waiting for something more important, a work of art that illuminates our flawed and complex and striving humanity behind all such wars. At last we have both in Kevin Powers'The Yellow Birds."—Robert Olen Butler
"A classic....Powers's first novel is full of boys, bile, bark, bodies and bewilderment....shows Powers's power to build suspense with substance and sensitivity."--Military Times
"Every sentence ofThe Yellow Birdsis something to marvel over, the words flashing and chiming like spent brass casings. Kevin Powers, who served as an Army machine gunner, has written one of the best books of the year, what could become the definitive novel about Iraq."--Benjamin Percy,Esquire
"In the great tradition of Hemingway and Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers's exquisitely writtenThe Yellow Birdsdraws us in to the combat zones of Iraq: the watch, the wait ("Stay alive, Stay alert"), the bungle, the slaughter, and the irreparable aftermath."—Edna O'Brien
"Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. Graves, Owen, and Sassoon would have recognised this war and the strange poetry it has bred."—Hilary Mantel
"The Yellow Birdsmight just be the first American literary masterpiece produced by the Iraq war."—Los Angeles Times
"An elegiac, sober, and haunting coming-of-age war story."—TIME
"The first great Iraq War novel."—Darren Reidy,Rolling Stone
"A first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo....Kevin Powers has something to say, something deeply moving about the frailty of man and the brutality of war, and we should all lean closer and listen."—Benjamin Percy,New York Times Book Review
"An exquisite excavation of the war's moral and psychological wreckage. Powers evokes the peculiar smell and feel of the war better than any journalist."—The New Yorker
"Darkly beautiful....How to tell a true war story if you're more a poet than a novelist? Tell it as a poet would. Tell it as Kevin Powers does."—Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
"A novel of grit, grace, and blood by an Iraq war veteran....Kevin Powers moves gracefully between spare, factual description of the soldiers' work to simple, hard-won reflections on the meaning of war."—Ron Charles,Washington Post
"An unusually spare and lyrical war story....The characters are sketched with as much heart as economy...Like the Iraq heat, which 'had the surprising effect of reducing one to tears in an instant,'The Yellow Birdsskulks along, detached and undemanding, until all of a sudden you turn a page and find yourself weeping."—GQ
"TheAll Quiet on the Western Frontof America's Arab wars."—Tom Wolfe
"The Yellow Birdsis harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary."—Ann Patchett
"Veteran Kevin Powers's searing debut novel brings the Iraq War home in compelling detail....The Yellow Birdsis luminous...an indispensable portrait of the Iraq War and its impact of those who fought it."—Men's Journal
"Kevin Powers'The Yellow Birdsis written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, are conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth."—Colm Toibin
"This is a novel I've been waiting for.The Yellow Birdsis born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence."—Alice Sebold
"Compelling, brilliantly written, and heart-breakingly true,The Yellow Birdsbelongs in the same category as Tim O'Brien'sThe Things They Carriedand Norman Mailer'sThe Naked and the Dead. Thus far the definitive novel of our long wars in the Middle East; this book is certain to be read and taught for generations to come."—Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust
"ReadingThe Yellow BirdsI became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard....a superb literary achievement."—Chris Cleave
"Powers has created a powerful work of art that captures the complexity and life altering realities of combat service. This book will endure. Read it and then put it way up on that high rare shelf alongside Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien."—Anthony Swofford
"We haven't just been waiting for a great novel to come out of the Iraq War, our 21stcentury Vietnam; we have also been waiting for something more important, a work of art that illuminates our flawed and complex and striving humanity behind all such wars. At last we have both in Kevin Powers'The Yellow Birds."—Robert Olen Butler
"A classic....Powers's first novel is full of boys, bile, bark, bodies and bewilderment....shows Powers's power to build suspense with substance and sensitivity."--Military Times
"Every sentence ofThe Yellow Birdsis something to marvel over, the words flashing and chiming like spent brass casings. Kevin Powers, who served as an Army machine gunner, has written one of the best books of the year, what could become the definitive novel about Iraq."--Benjamin Percy,Esquire
"In the great tradition of Hemingway and Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers's exquisitely writtenThe Yellow Birdsdraws us in to the combat zones of Iraq: the watch, the wait ("Stay alive, Stay alert"), the bungle, the slaughter, and the irreparable aftermath."—Edna O'Brien
"Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. Graves, Owen, and Sassoon would have recognised this war and the strange poetry it has bred."—Hilary Mantel
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An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a modern classic.
An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a modern classic.
Premii
- National Book Awards Finalist, 2012
- Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Finalist, 2012
- Indies Choice Book Awards Honor Book, 2013
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Winner, 2013
- Guardian First Book Award Winner, 2012