THE YELLOW BIRDS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701211B50512

English Summary/英文概要： It is heartbreaking and very haunting – the story of young US soldiers going to Iraq… It is short, 53,000 words but unforgettable. A kind of fictional HURT LOCKER…

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者Kevin Powers生於及成長於美國維吉尼亞州，父親是煙廠的員工。在經過叛逆的青春期後，在17歲那年加入軍隊，入伍後一年開始伊拉克服役直到退伍。退伍後曾在社會上闖蕩一陣子，最後一份工作是在信用卡公司。之後他重返校園，2008年時在維吉尼亞聯邦大學(Virginia Commonwealth University)完成他的學士學位，明天他將完成在德州大學（University of Texas）的藝術創作碩士學位（M.F.A.）。THE YELLOW BIRDS是他第一本小說作品，講的是關於一群美國青年參加伊拉克戰爭的故事，整個架構有點像小說版的《危機倒數》(The Hurt Locker)，其簡潔的文字風格讓人想起大文豪海明威Hemingway，而對景物的描寫天分則宛如戈馬克．麥卡錫(Cormac McCarthy)一樣令人難忘。THE YELLOW BIRDS的書稿在作者經紀人寄給美國出版社Little, Brown的編輯Michael Pietsch不到24小時內就以高價簽下北美版權！(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：Shortlisted for the 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction

Winner of the 2013 Hemmingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction

Winner of the 2012 Guardian First Book Award

Shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

A The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best books of 2012

北美版權在24小時內以高價售給Little, Brown US! Pre-empt offers from Brazil, Sweden, Norway and China..

Praises:
The book is so heartfelt and so good that it not only reaffirms the power of fiction to tell the truth about the unspeakable, but also asks serious questions of a generation of writers - myself included - who have thus far avoided addressing these disastrous wars directly. Reading The Yellow Birds I became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard. Impeccably structured and told with the poetry of a master, I often had to put the book down, close my eyes and savour the depth of the writing. Comparisons with Hemingway will be inevitable because of the brevity and economical style, and with Cormac McCarthy because of the author’s talent for landscape. But Powers builds on this literary foundation to create a style of his own. He writes without hauteur, and his insights into the post-traumatic condition have a degree of sharpness that frequently subvert the classical mode of his storytelling and leave the reader with heart hammering. This is a superb literary achievement. I urge everyone to read it."---CHRIS CLEAVE author of LITTLE BEE/ THE OTHER HAND

"Compelling, brilliantly written, and heart-breakingly true, The Yellow Birds belongs in the same category as Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead. Thus far the definitive novel of our long wars in the Middle East; this book is certain to be read and taught for generations to come."---PHILIPP MEYER author of AMERICAN RUST

"Kevin Powers’ ’The Yellow Birds’ is written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, are conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth. The music of his prose has an exquisite mixture of control and then release which mirrors the action of the book, and the psychological and physical pressures under which the characters are placed."---COLM TOIBIN

About the Author/作者介绍： Kevin Powers was born and raised just outside of Richmond, Virginia, the youngest son of a cigarette factory worker and a mail carrier. After a mildly wayward youth, he joined the army at the age of 17, later serving a year as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq. Upon his honorable discharge, he muddled through a series of jobs, first framing houses with his brother, then as a substitute special education teacher, and finally ending up at a credit card company where he mostly took up space in cubicles of various sizes. Unsatisfied with this trajectory, he quit the last of them and enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor’s degree in English.
Kevin is currently a Michener Fellow in Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin, where he will receive his M.F.A. in 2012. He also facilitates a poetry group for veterans in the Austin area through the Veterans Administration, which has proven to him that language is capable of remarkable things. Besides his love of language, he has a wonderful relationship with his tolerant and supportive wife, Kelly, and an incredibly difficult relationship with his Royal Enfield motorcycle, which runs infrequently.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Hodder (pub September 2012); THE YELLOW BIRDS has now been sold to the following: US: Little Brown (pre-empt) UK: Sceptre (pre-empt) Brazil: Companhia das Letras (pre-empt) China: Shanghai 99 (pre-empt) Germany: Fischer (auction) Holland: Prometheus (auction) Israel: Modan (pre-empt) Italy: Einaudi (auction) Norway: Gyldendal (pre-empt) Sweden: Bonniers (pre-empt) Further good news: we have on-going auctions in France and Denmark and a first offer in Japan.

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