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.
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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...
评分看完以后觉得很……一种很难形容的感觉。我一直坚持,在某种意义上讲,战争其实是没有赢家的,不管最后的结果是什么,战争的哪一方都会失去很多。 这本书从美军角度讲故事,在伊拉克,即使地形不熟悉也没有人民战争的海洋,理论上说,美军也占有优势。一个强大国家的配备完整训...
评分文不对题,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...
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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
我以前认识的VET,不论去没去过IRAQ,都认为那里是个SHITHOLE。
评分充满人性的战争反思
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,详细的描述了他们在伊拉克作战的艰苦环境。战争是可怕的,军人也有权害怕,他们曾说宁愿美国马上投降,只希望自己远离这一切,这是人之常情。在战争中经常会看到战友死去,大多时候是听说某连死去了一个人,觉得很遥远,而当一个人死在M身旁时一切都变了,M心理极度恐惧与厌恶战争,尤其是当那个女医生也被炸死时,他彻底“死去”,裸奔出军营,最后被伊拉克人们残忍杀害,Bart找到他时隐瞒了这些,将他的尸体抛入河中。M的妈妈坚持要求真相,B被调查,为他就那么替她做了决定而付出牢狱1000多天的代价。B从战争中回来时,经历了很久封闭的生活,一直在逃避,战争对人的心理创伤是多么大啊
评分战争是残酷的,对于军人的心理创伤常人无法想象。可惜的是军人为了国家的牺牲往往只是源于politician的贪婪。
评分我的同学里面有两位是我知道从阿富汗战场上回来的陆军,其中一位是拆弹部队的,服役8年,还有一位好像是sniper。我跟他们都不熟,他们平时笑的时候跟普通人没有什么区别,但是偶尔安静的时候,会露出那种作者Powers的神情,那是一种不可言喻的悲伤绝望,带着可怕的冷静甚至无所谓的漠然。
The Yellow Birds 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书