ANATOMY OF A SOLDIER

Book ID/图书代码： 04560015B79481

English Summary/英文概要： A breathtaking and wholly original debut: an account of private tragedy set against the backdrop of modern warfare.

A veteran of the recent war in Iraq, Tom Barnes picks up his kit, writes his service number BA5799 across most of it, and travels back to Afghanistan as a Platoon leader. He is a conscientious, thoughtful, and experienced young soldier. Such qualities, however, cannot prevent him from stepping on an IED, and returning home with one leg missing and the other soon to be amputated.

In the towns and villages near the army base is a network of conflicted communities. Families, themselves veterans of previous conflicts, are breaking apart as the younger generation grows up and into the new angry politics produced by years of war. Whether on the home-front or in the military, everyone has been affected. Faridun and Latif played together as boys, they now find themselves facing each other down at checkpoints.

This stunning debut is narrated by a variety of everyday items which accompany the characters throughout their lives. From Latif’s new American trainers, which quietly identify him as an insurgent when placed next to his family’s sandals, and Tom’s mother’s handbag as she is told the news about her son, to the hospital saw that removes Tom’s leg and the IED itself, these previously inanimate objects convey pathos, violence, hope and despair to spellbinding effect.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部令人惊叹的原创处女作：讲述了现代战争背景下的个人悲剧。

伊拉克战争的老兵Tom Barnes拿起他那写着服役编号BA5799的包，作为排长回到了阿富汗战场。他是一名善良、周到、富有经验的年轻士兵，但这些都无法让他避免踩上简易爆炸装置。他的一条腿被炸飞了，另一条腿也将被截肢，因此不得不被送回国。

在军事基地附近的城镇和村庄的社区中充斥着各种冲突。随着年轻一代成长为多年战争背景下的愤怒政治牺牲品，老兵们的家庭正在分崩离析。无论是在家里，还是在军队，每个人都受到了影响。Faridun和Latif是从小一起长大的玩伴，而现在他们却在各自的检查站看着对方。

这部惊艳的处女作以伴随人物生活的日常物品的口吻写就。包括Latif的全新美国球鞋，和他家人的凉鞋放在一起默默表明了他作为反叛者的角色；Tom母亲的手包，见证她听闻儿子的消息并前往为他儿子截肢并出去爆炸物的医院……这些没有生命的物品传达着悲怆、暴力、希望和绝望，产生了一种魔幻的效果。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Winner of the Waverton Good Read Award 2017 (for Debut Fiction).
Shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
Longlisted for the inaugural Goldsboro Glass Bell Award

Praise:

’It’s marvellously told and this way of telling it... giving the inanimate a voice... is both engrossing and distancing and I know of nothing quite like it.’ --Alan Bennett

’It is a novel of concentrated ferocity and chilling accomplishments, tense and unflinching but alive to every nuance of feeling.’ --Hilary Mantel

‘This is a brilliant book, direct from the battle zone, where all the paraphernalia of slaughter is deployed to tell its particular and savage story.’ --Edna O’Brien

‘A tour de force. In this brilliant and beguiling novel Harry Parker sees the hidden forces that act on the bodies and souls of combatants and non-combatants. These pages are dangerous but they contain compassion and sorrow too. There is wonder here at what men have done to themselves. It feels like war through the looking glass but it is utterly real.’-- Nadeem Aslam

‘Highly original. This is a compassionate and compelling book where the artefacts and detritus of war tell their own emotive stories. The language has a clarity about it that elevates it to the beautiful.’ --Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

‘A riveting, evocative, brutally realistic read. Anatomy of a Soldier is a novel, but one clearly based on the author’s searing experiences in combat and during recovery. It provides a vivid description of life as a soldier in Afghanistan and of life after being seriously wounded. What Harry Parker has written will enthrall, enlighten, and stay with readers.’ --General (Ret) David Petraeus, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, 2010-11

’We’ve become desensitized to war stories, but Harry Parker - not simply through the originality of his approach but also through skillful storytelling, intimate observation, and an endless ability to surprise and move the reader - cuts past our calluses and delivers a bold new narrative of war and its aftermath.’--Philip Klay

’It has every chance of being the best British war novel of its generation.’ --Esquire

About the Author/作者介绍： Harry Parker在威尔特郡长大。他曾就读于法尔茅斯艺术学院和伦敦大学学院。他23岁加入英国陆军，2007年在伊拉克服役，2009年作为上尉在阿富汗服役。他现在是一名作家和艺术家，居住在伦敦。他在业余时间划海上皮划艇。

Harry Parker grew up in Wiltshire. He was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 as a Captain. He is now a writer and artist and lives in London. He sea kayaks in his spare time.

Format:PROOF

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Audio (W.F. Howes), Czech Republic (Albatros Media) France (Christian Bourgois), Germany (Benevento), Italy (Edizioni Sur), Netherlands (Hollands Diep), Portugal (20/20 Editora), Spain (Sexto Piso), Ukraine (Ranok), US (Knopf)

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