The Yellow Birds

By: Kevin Powers

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Paperback | 11 June 2013 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and BOOK OF THE YEAR

''Extraordinary . . . a must-read'' Guardian

''A masterpiece . . . a classic'' The Times

''A stunning achievement'' Sunday Times

''Remarkable . . . every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify'' Hilary Mantel

''Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary'' Ann Patchett

Everywhere John looks, he sees Murph.

He flinches when cars drive past. His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasn''t held for months. Wide-eyed strangers praise him as a hero, but he can feel himself disappearing.

Back home after a year in Iraq, memories swarm around him: bodies burning in the crisp morning air. Sunlight falling through branches; bullets kicking up dust; ripples on a pond wavering like plucked strings. The promise he made, to a young man''s mother, that her son would be brought home safely.

Written with profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on families at home, The Yellow Birds is one of the most haunting, true and powerful novels of our time.

A NEW YORK TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TIMES, TLS, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY EXPRESS, GUARDIAN, SCOTSMAN, SUNDAY HERALD, IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

Industry Reviews

Extraordinary . . . beautifully accomplished. The mark of an artist of the first order . . . a must-read book. - JOHN BURNSIDE, GUARDIAN

A masterpiece ... a classic. - THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A stunning achievement - visceral [and] poignant. - SUNDAY TIMES

'Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. - HILARY MANTEL, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR

The best book I have read this year - IRISH TIMES

A wonderful, powerful novel that moves and terrifies. - INDEPENDENT

Harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary. - ANN PATCHETT, Orange Prizewinning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder

A stunning read . . . beautiful [and] devastating. - SIMON MAYO, BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB

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