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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)

The Yellow Birds

Kevin Powers

Hardcover | Pages: 226 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 22875 Users | 3238 Reviews

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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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My dad was a cold warrior, serving in the Air Force from before my birth to well into my adult years. Part of that time was spent serving in Vietnam and Thailand (and, yes, there was combat in Thailand at the time) where he was a radio operator who also served on base defense whenever his base was attacked. Apparently, this happened a few times in his stay in Southeast Asia. As a boy, being a boy, I asked my Dad "Dad, did you ever get a purple heart?". He responded "No way! I kept my ass down!

"THE WAR TRIED to kill us in the spring. As green greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into he windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer. When we pressed onward through exhaustion, its eyes were white and open in the dark. While we ate, the war fasted, fed by its own deprivation.

Halfway through our ongoing war on terror, a scholar at the University of East London estimated that a new book on terrorism was being published in English every six hours. Fiction writers were slower to engage with Sept. 11, but by 2006, the attacks and Americas response were becoming a touchstone for major novelists, including Jonathan Safran Foer, Ian McEwan, Claire Messud, Ward Just, John Updike, Don DeLillo, Joseph ONeill, Andre Debus III, Lorrie Moore, Allegra Goodman, Sue Miller and many,

The first lines of Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds announces that it intends to be a classic war novel, to be placed on the shelf somewhere between All Quiet on the Western Front and The Things They Carried: The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the

Ma, I am enlisting, said the BoyButwhy? You are so young?, said the Mother worried and perplexed.I am 18, said the boy, quite capable of doing what I want to do, he added with emphasis and a certain vehemence in his tone.But.why? I dont understand this sudden decision, said the mother againI need to be a man and what better way to become one than to go fight for my country, said the boy in a tone that brooked no argument.But you are a man to me.. isnt that enough?, asked the mother not wanting

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

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.