＂The All Quiet on the Western Front of America''s Arab wars.＂
Tom Wolfe
＂The Yellow Birds is harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and
utterly, urgently necessary.＂ Ann Patchett
当代战争文学经典之作，语言简洁优美如海明威，景物描绘之天才如麦卡锡
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
內容簡介：
二十一岁的巴特与十八岁的新兵莫菲，於美国出兵伊拉克前夕于军中相识，两人一见如故，巴特答应莫菲母亲，会平安带著她儿子归来，但二○○五年，只剩巴特独自一人退伍返国。莫菲在伊拉克战场上因饱受死亡威胁，精神崩溃逃出军营，巴特与士官长施大林发现他时，莫菲已遭不明人士虐杀，全身赤裸，不仅眼睛被挖出，耳朵、鼻子被割掉，生殖器也几乎被切断，两人在怕事的心态下将莫菲丢入河中佯装失踪，巴特事后假扮莫菲写了封信给莫菲之母。然而等到巴特退伍回国后，莫菲的尸体浮现在底格里斯河与幼发拉底河的汇流处……
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.
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.
關於作者：
凯文·鲍尔斯出生、成长於美国维吉尼亚州里奇蒙，毕业於维吉尼亚联邦大学，德州大学奥斯汀分校艺术创作硕士，其诗作获米奇纳奖学金Michener
Fellow。
二○○四年至二○○五年曾至伊拉克战场服役，在摩苏尔与塔法尔担任机枪手。
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the
PENHemingway 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.
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