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.
发表于2024-12-22
The Yellow Birds 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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...
评分确实是一部好作品。它的主题也是“寻找”二字:寻找战争的意义,同时也是对自己灵魂的寻找。小说是一个主线明确的一气呵成的故事,文字透露着文艺的气息,越往后却越压抑,的确是现实主义的小说流派。战争始终是残酷的,需要避免的。可是,它依旧在被继续着,在扰乱当地的生活...
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...
评分文/夏丽柠 从美国本土去伊拉克,如果走水路,要穿过大西洋、经过好望角、马达加斯加、印度洋和波斯湾,路程超过一万公里。从2003年开始,如此遥远的两个国家名字却紧密地联系在了一起,一场旷日持久的战争,直至2011年最后一批驻伊拉克美军撤离才宣告结束。然而,战争留在两国...
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...
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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
战争是残酷的...
评分我以前认识的VET,不论去没去过IRAQ,都认为那里是个SHITHOLE。
评分就不要妄想诗人能给你写出什么故事性
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。
评分觉得学完战争文学后就对这种题材情有独钟啊……
The Yellow Birds 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书