SPOILS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B85290
English Summary/英文概要： A decorated veteran himself, the author brings scalpel- like authenticity and extraordinary empathy to a familiar battleground with unfamiliar characters. Both the female American soldier Cassanadra Wigheard and the jihadist fighter Abu Al-Hool are deeply complex individuals, and deliver something fresh to a harrowing story. Brian Van Reet inhabits their inner lives and internal conflicts, and the theatre of war with an unflinching eye. Never before has the myriad vicissitudes of warfare and its blurring of the lines between good and bad, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished been so remarkably drawn through an unforgiving but deeply humanising lens. The same deftness of character description is also evident in the plot. The immediacy and inexorableness of the action combine to produce a breath-taking and cinematic finale.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者本人也是一个老兵。他以手术刀一般的精确性和满腔的同情讲述了一个在他熟悉的战场上发生的陌生的角色之间的故事。女兵Cassanadra Wigheard和圣战士Abu Al-Hool都是复杂的个体，为一个悲惨的故事带来些许新意。作者能够看到他们的内心世界、他们自我的冲突以及最终的战争场景。在此之前从未有人能够将战争中的好与坏、士兵与平民、胜利和失败之间的模糊界限用如此无情而又深情的笔触写出。对于人物性格的描述和情节一样灵巧，跌宕起伏，结局堪比电影。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：Brian Van Reet的这部作品美丽，紧张，有时甚至令人不安，它追溯了伊拉克战争双方的动机和欲望，告诉我们当越来越多的暴力和混乱影响到最终的决定时将会发生什么。《Phil Klay，著有Redeployment》
这本书很快就会成为一流战争小说中的一块里程碑，它读起来就像一个最终发展成为噩梦的悲剧，融合了感人的经典和残酷的现实。这场战争标志着美国作为一个帝国的终结。我们这个时代有关中东的最好的小说之一。《Philipp Meyer，著有American Rust和The Son》
BLURBS
‘Brian Van Reet’s beautiful, intense, and at times disturbing novel Spoils traces the motivations and desires of combatants on both sides of the Iraq War, showing us what happens when increasing violence and chaos start to warp the choices they’re able to make. PHIL KLAY author of REDEPLOYMENT
‘Moving immediately into the pantheon of first-rate war novels, Spoils reads like a nightmare within a tragedy, a story that is both touchingly classic and brutally modern. This is a definitive record of the war that marked the end of the American Empire. One of the best novels of our time in the Middle East’PHILIPP MEYER author of AMERICAN RUST and THE SON
‘In recent years there have been a number of very good novels by veterans of the Global War on Terror. None is as ambitious, inclusive or powerful as Brian Van Reet’s Spoils; none has this novel’s range or uncanny ability to transport the reader to the battlefield and those rarely explored margins at the battlefield’s ragged edge. Spoils is a fantastic debut’AARON GWYN author of WYNNE’S WAR
AN INDIE NEXT, BARNES AND NOBLE, AND AMAZON PICK FOR APRIL, 2017
BRITISH GQ‘S BOOK OF THE MONTH
THE GUARDIAN‘S BOOK OF THE DAY
About the Author/作者介绍： Brian Van Reet出生在休斯顿并在那里以及马里兰州西部长大。911之后，他从弗吉尼亚州大学退学，放弃了自己的Echols奖学金，参军并成为一个坦克兵。美国发布止损协议之后，他仍在伊拉克服役，并获得中士军衔、铜星勋章。
退役后，他就读于密苏里大学以及德克萨斯大学。他的小说曾获得Michener Center for Writers、Gulf Coast以及Iowa Review等评选的奖项，故事和散文也见诸《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、以及各种文学杂志和文集中。2015年，他获得Texas Institute of Letters的短篇小说奖。他与妻子、女儿居住在奥斯汀，现年34岁。
Brian Van Reet was born in Houston, Texas. Following the September 11th attacks, he left the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar, and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a tank crewman. He served in Iraq under stop-loss orders, achieved the rank of sergeant, and was awarded a Bronze Star for valour. He has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters short story award. Spoils is his first novel.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：US: Lee Boudreaux Books [Hachette] (Lee Boudreaux); UK: Cape (Michal Shavit, publisher - this is her first fiction acquisition since her move to Cape); France: L’ Oliver (Olivier Cohen); Holland: offer.
Rights sold: US: Lee Boudreaux Books (Little, Brown); UK: Cape; France: L’Olivier; Germany: Rowohlt; Holland: Atlas; Italy: Guanda
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