The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment“[This] compact epic of a novel contains perhaps Klay’s finest writing yet…Using his formidable gifts for scene-setting, mean
榮獲2014美國國家圖書獎 (2014 National Book Awards Winner)"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what hap
In the modern world, everything is connected, including how we kill.A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an Ameri
Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven wi
From the author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided AmericaWhen Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself a part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime experiences―for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in war―from the revolutionary war of our founding, to the civil war that ended slavery, to the two world wars that launched America as a superpower. What did the current wars say about who we are as a country, and how should we respond as citizens?Unlike in previous eras of war, relatively few Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible conflicts of the post-9/11 world; in fact, increasingly few people are even aware they are still going on. It is as if these wars are a dark star with a strong gravitational force that draws a
Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven wi