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The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers

Hardcover | Pages: 226 pages

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Title	:	The Yellow Birds
Author	:	Kevin Powers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 226 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2012 by Little, Brown and Company
Categories	:	Fiction. War. Historical. Historical Fiction. Military Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Literature

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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 about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic. "The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking 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. 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. Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.

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Original Title:	The Yellow Birds
ISBN:	0316219363 (ISBN13: 9780316219365)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sterling, Bartle, Murph
Setting:	Iraq
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2013), Guardian First Book Award (2012), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2013), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2013), Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2013) Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2013), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012), Prix littéraire étranger Le Monde (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2012)

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First off, I want to say that the problem with this book is probably with me. Many deeper, more thoughtful readers loved it, and I might have enjoyed it more if I was in the mood for a book I had to really concentrate on and think about, and if I had someone there to explain all the lyrical, beautifully written, but somewhat confusing prose. I had to keep rereading, but even now I am not sure of what happened or why in parts of the book. It is the story of a soldier serving in Iraq in 2004. He

Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.

Contrary to most of the other reviewers, I loved this. Absence of strict plot does not a bad novel make. It is certainly more poetic than books that are strictly categorized as novels these days. I think war stories in particular benefit from a more poetic, stream-of-consciousness type writing. Seldom does war itself follow a strict plot line, why would war literature do so. Characters may be deemed somewhat lacking, but the story isn't really about them, it's about the experience, and I think

Some people are just born to write. Kevin Powers, in this debut book, is certainly one of them. The Yellow Birds is breathtaking good, profoundly insightful and written with an incredible amount of emotional precision.Some might compare it to other war-themed books: The Naked and the Dead, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Things They Carried, or even A Separate Peace. They would, in my opinion, be misguided.This is not the quintessential book about the Iraqi War, even though the settings are

1.99 Kindle SpecialLyrical, brutal prose. Kevin Powers was 17 when he joined the army, the lieutenant in his novel was in his early 20's. I realized while reading this book the very high price of freedom, I suppose that's true of all wars. As with The Things They Carried, Lone Survivor and other books I've read this is one I won't forget! Heavy on my heart. Great first novel on a difficult subject.

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Let me tell you right now that this book is going to hurt. The suffering the Iraqi War veterans endure in this book will touch a raw spot in you that you might prefer not to experience. You will probably, like me, have a lump in your throat and teary eyes most of the time when reading this excellent first novel by Kevin Powers. 5 stars all around and I'm looking forward to reading all future books by Powers, a combat veteran of the Iraq war.