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The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers

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English
Hodder & Stoughton
11 June 2013
ABBEY'S CHOICE JUNE 2013 ----- WINNER of The Guardian First Book Award 2012. An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war by a young Iraq veteran and poet, this novel is already being hailed as a modern classic. Everywhere John looks, he sees Murph. He flinches when cars drive past. His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasn't held for months. Wide-eyed strangers praise him as a hero, but he can feel himself disappearing. Back home after a year in Iraq, memories swarm around him: bodies burning in the crisp morning air. Sunlight falling through branches; bullets kicking up dust; ripples on a pond wavering like plucked strings. The promise he made, to a young man's mother, that her son would be brought home safely. Kevin Powers has composed an unforgettable account of friendship and loss. It vividly captures the desperation and brutality of war, and its terrible after-effects. But it is also a story of love, of great courage, and of extraordinary human survival. Written with profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on families at home, this is one of the most haunting, true and powerful novels of our time.  'It is the All Quiet on the Western Front of America's Arab Wars' says Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities.  'Inexplicably beautiful' says Ann Patchett, Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder. 

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Imprint:   Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   180g
ISBN:   9781444756142
ISBN 10:   1444756141
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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. He currently lives in Florence, where his wife studies fashion. www.kevincpowers.com

Reviews for The Yellow Birds

Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. - JOHN BURNSIDE, GUARDIAN A masterpiece ... a classic. - THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. - SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. - HILARY MANTEL, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR The best book I have read this year - IRISH TIMES A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. - INDEPENDENT Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary. - ANN PATCHETT, Orange Prizewinning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder A stunning read . . . beautiful [and] devastating. - SIMON MAYO, BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB


  • Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2012
  • Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2012.

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