by Kevin Powers · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234073982
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«Yellow birds» is Kevin Powers's war novel, published by Stock in hardcover (264 pages, in French).
The protagonist, a 21-year-old soldier stationed in Al Tafar (Iraq), forms an intense friendship with Murph, an 18-year-old recruit, and promises to bring him home. The novel follows Sergeant Sterling's regiment through the daily reality of the conflict and addresses memory, loss, and the difficult return to civilian life.
Kevin Powers's debut novel, translated from English by Emmanuelle and Philippe Aronson; this French edition (Stock, 2013, La Cosmopolite) won the Prix littéraire Le Monde 2013.
For readers of war fiction and contemporary literature, especially those seeking stories about the Iraq War and its aftermath.
Kevin Powers is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.
