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
發表於2024-06-01
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這是一部透露著人性的救贖的小說。無論如何,當我迴想起這部小說,心中依然充滿感動。就算小說給人一種現實的感覺,我依然給予一個好故事,一部好小說的評價。戰爭時代的,不同角色人物的故事搭建的主綫,有始有終,也有感動,但他真的不需要再證明什麼瞭。真實!震撼!隻是沒...
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評分溯流而上,戰爭的瘋狂把人物塑造成不同的模樣,恐懼越深,越接近精神世界的盡頭,總而言之,深刻的寓意,宏大的場麵,再加上震撼人心的觀後感,使得《黃鳥》真正成為瞭一部登峰造極的戰爭史詩小說。即使對不喜好的戰爭題材,我也感受到瞭作傢的用心和對人性的品味。這一點上,...
評分這應該是關於伊拉剋戰爭最有深意的一部小說瞭,節奏上的舒緩但是並不緩慢。主人公的冷靜,節奏的舒緩反襯戰爭的可怕,精準的射擊,很刺激。更錶現伊拉剋戰爭的殘酷。戰爭永遠是這個世上最不正義的事情,不知道美國在為瞭自己的利益而發動戰爭的時候,有沒有想過那些被戰爭摧毀...
圖書標籤: 美國 《紐約時報》:2012年度十大好書 美國文學 小說 外國文學 原版書 KevinPowers 英文原版
充滿人性的戰爭反思
評分一本寫得很用力、也很富有感染力的小說,但不難見齣美國創意寫作教學的痕跡。去年是Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife,今年是Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds,美國齣版界這兩年對新作傢的力捧有點歇斯底裏。
評分戰爭是殘酷的,對於軍人的心理創傷常人無法想象。可惜的是軍人為瞭國傢的犧牲往往隻是源於politician的貪婪。
評分關於美國士兵的書是第一次看,對於戰後創傷有瞭更多的瞭解。戰爭是恐怖的。
評分一本寫得很用力、也很富有感染力的小說,但不難見齣美國創意寫作教學的痕跡。去年是Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife,今年是Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds,美國齣版界這兩年對新作傢的力捧有點歇斯底裏。
The Yellow Birds 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載