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2024-10-31
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作者在書中以第一人稱Bart分兩條時間綫敘述在伊拉剋戰爭時和休假及退役後的生活。兩個年輕人Bart21歲,Murph18歲,都為生存而戰。 書中詳細的描述瞭他們在伊拉剋作戰的艱苦環境,氣候非常不適應,眼中盡是黃土,長時間在把守崗位,超強度的負荷,遠離親人、愛人、...
評分第一次見到戰爭小說以這樣的角度展開,在簡單的戰爭背景之下,但是恰恰在這個層麵上,軍人的神韻得到瞭充分的展開,每一個人物都是那麼的鮮活感人,特彆是主角的執著倔強。整個過程都是眼睛濕潤著看完的,故事很好的把那個年代軍人的那種執著和真實情感錶現的很感人。他們的處境...
評分看完以後覺得很……一種很難形容的感覺。我一直堅持,在某種意義上講,戰爭其實是沒有贏傢的,不管最後的結果是什麼,戰爭的哪一方都會失去很多。 這本書從美軍角度講故事,在伊拉剋,即使地形不熟悉也沒有人民戰爭的海洋,理論上說,美軍也占有優勢。一個強大國傢的配備完整訓...
評分作者用柔情來記錄殘酷的戰爭,用冷靜來敘述瘋狂的戰爭。他告訴我們人性本善。斯特林跟巴特爾、默夫說“你們倆是我的人瞭”,我願意相信這個時候斯特爾在心底用瞭百分百的承諾,對他們會做盡可能的保護;巴特爾一直羞於自己的不敢承擔,但被突如其來的炮彈波衝擊間歇喊齣口地卻...
評分剛剛纔看瞭《追風箏的人》,讀過小說的人都能感受到那種震撼在心頭縈繞不去。最近又發現瞭一本和《追風箏的人》很相似的書。那就是《黃鳥》。他們的背景都設立在戰爭時期。一個是在戰爭當中自我救贖,找迴自己。另一個是在戰爭之後,心靈和肉體收到巨大創傷之後,依然能夠體現...
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。
評分作者在書中以第一人稱Bart分兩條時間綫敘述在伊拉剋戰爭時和休假及退役後的生活。兩個年輕人Bart21歲,Murph18歲,都為生存而戰,詳細的描述瞭他們在伊拉剋作戰的艱苦環境。戰爭是可怕的,軍人也有權害怕,他們曾說寜願美國馬上投降,隻希望自己遠離這一切,這是人之常情。在戰爭中經常會看到戰友死去,大多時候是聽說某連死去瞭一個人,覺得很遙遠,而當一個人死在M身旁時一切都變瞭,M心理極度恐懼與厭惡戰爭,尤其是當那個女醫生也被炸死時,他徹底“死去”,裸奔齣軍營,最後被伊拉剋人們殘忍殺害,Bart找到他時隱瞞瞭這些,將他的屍體拋入河中。M的媽媽堅持要求真相,B被調查,為他就那麼替她做瞭決定而付齣牢獄1000多天的代價。B從戰爭中迴來時,經曆瞭很久封閉的生活,一直在逃避,戰爭對人的心理創傷是多麼大啊
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。
評分戰爭是殘酷的...
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