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title : Redeployment Abebooks Klay Phil
Author : Phil Klay
Publisher : Penguin Books
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description : p winner of the 2014 national book award for fiction nbsp middot winner of the john leonard first book prize nbsp middot selected as one of the best books of the year by nbsp the new york times book review nbsp time nbsp newsweek nbsp the washington post book world nbsp amazon and more nbsp phil klay 39 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 nbsp interwoven with themes of brutality and faith guilt and fear helplessness and survival the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos in quot redeployment quot a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn what it is like to return to domestic life in suburbia surrounded by people quot who have no idea where fallujah is where three members of your platoon died quot nbsp in quot after action report quot a lance corporal seeks expiation for a killing he didn 39 t commit in order that his best friend will be unburdened nbsp a morturary affairs marine tells about his experiences collecting remains mdash of u s and iraqi soldiers both nbsp a chaplain sees his understanding of christianity and his ability to provide solace through religion tested by the actions of a ferocious colonel nbsp and in the darkly comic quot money as a weapons system quot a young foreign service officer is given the absurd task of helping iraqis improve their lives by teaching them to play baseball nbsp these stories reveal the intricate combination of monotony bureaucracy comradeship and violence that make up a soldier 39 s daily life at war and the isolation remorse and despair that can accompany a soldier 39 s homecoming redeployment is poised to become a classic in the tradition of war writing nbsp across nations and continents klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits one of extremes and one of loss nbsp written with a hard eyed realism and stunning emotional depth this work marks phil klay as one of the most talented new voices of his generation p
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