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The Yellow Birds

The Yellow Birds

Author(s): Kevin Powers

Location(s): Iraq

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 2000s

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This books is told in a first person narrative by Bartle, who is 21 years old and on his first tour of duty in Iraq, 2004. It tells of his friendship with 18 year old fellow American Murphy – and the desperate attempts to hold on to some vestiges of humanity and compassion in the midst of war. It is war, and all that means, set in Iraq.

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‘An extraordinary novel . . . remarkable . . . stands with Tim O’Brien’s enduring Vietnam book, The Things They Carried, as a classic of contemporary war fiction . . . brilliantly observed and...

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