by Kevin Powers · Distribooks Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253177326
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«Yellow Birds» is Kevin Powers's war novel, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (240 pages, in French).
Bartle, a twenty-one-year-old soldier stationed in Al Tafar (Iraq), strikes up a friendship with eighteen-year-old Murphy, born during training. The novel follows Sergeant Sterling's regiment through the daily grind of war: constant danger and Bartle's promise to bring Murphy back alive, against an impossible return to civilian life.
Translation from American English by Emmanuelle and Philippe Aronson. The work was originally published as The Yellow Birds (2012) and received the Prix littéraire étranger Le Monde.
For readers of war fiction and contemporary narrative, interested in soldiers' stories and the human cost of conflicts.
Kevin Powers is an American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.
