Présentation de l'éditeur
How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend? How does it feel to see fear in your wife's eyes? How does it feel to come home? Redeployment takes readers to the front lines of the wars in Iraq, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
Revue de presse
* Extraordinarily powerful Washington Post * In Klay's hands, Iraq comes across not merely as a theater of war but as a laboratory for the human condition in extremis -- Michiko Kakutani New York Times * Will simultaneously break your heart and give you reasons to hope -- Ben Fountain * At times Redeployment recapitulates the remarkably tender, self-conscious style that Tim O'Brien forged from his experiences in Vietnam ... Mr Klay gives a deeply disquieting view of a generation of soldiers reared on war's most terrible contradictions Wall Street Journal * One of the great story collections of recent times -- Colum McCann * After the first reading I immediately began the second ... Truly haunting, and truly, indisputably, brilliant -- NIALL GRIFFITHS * Hilarious, biting and sad. It's the best thing written so far on what the war did to people's souls Scotsman * These are gorgeous stories - fierce, intelligent and heart-breaking -- Roxana Robinson, author of SPARTA * Redeployment is fiction of a very high order. These are war stories, written with passion and urgency and consummate writerly skill. There's a clarity here that's lacerating in its precision and exhilarating in its effects -- Patrick McGrath * Stunning, upsetting, urgently necessary -- Karen Russell, author of SWAMPLANDIA! * A must-read -- Anthony Swofford, author of JARHEAD * It hooks you in and doesn't let you go -- JAMES ROBERTSON, author of The Testament of Gideon Mack * Provocative and haunting ... Phil Klay is a powerful new voice and Redeployment stands tall with the best war writing of this decade -- SIOBHAN FALLON, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone * Sharp, intelligent, compelling Irish Times * Redeployment is the real thing - a vivid and vital battery of war stories that does not rely solely on its subject matter for impact (although, make no mistake, the subject certainly has impact) --Guardian
Quatrième de couverture
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FRANK O'CONNOR PRIZE
How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend?
How does it feel to see fear in your wife's eyes?
How does it feel to come home?
REDEPLOYMENT takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
Biographie de l'auteur
Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps and served in Iraq. His work has featured in the New York Times and Granta. This is his first book.
