Bøger af Phil Klay

«En Nuevo destino, Phil Klay le transmite al lector de a pie lo que se siente al ser un soldado en combate, y cómo es volver a casa, todavía aturdido por las contrariedades de la guerra.» The New York Times ¿Qué ocurre cuando las guerras acaban y los soldados regresan a casa? ¿Qué heridas de guerra son las más terribles, las de sus cuerpos o las de sus mentes? ¿Y qué pasará con esos heridos, ahora que su misión ha terminado y nadie los necesita? Libro ganador del premio National Book Award 2014 Este libro, tan brillante como necesario, es la primera obra de Phil Klay, ex marine y veterano de la guerra de Irak. Con él obtuvo en 2014 el premio más prestigioso de las letras norteamericanas: el National Book Award, además de otros galardones. Nuevo destino fue unánimemente aclamado por la crítica norteamericana y recomendado por el presidente Barack Obama, que lo calificó de lectura poderosa e inolvidable. A través de sus doce impactantes relatos, Nuevo destino traslada al lector a la primera línea de fuego de las guerras de Irak y Afganistán, instándole a comprender lo que allí sucedió y qué fue de los soldados que volvieron a casa. Basado en su propia experiencia y en la de otros soldados, el retrato que Phil Klay hace del conflicto bélico resulta a un tiempo próximo, duro e impactante, pero también, aunque pueda parecer extraño, cálido e incluso mordaz. Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction - Winner of the John Leonard First Book Prize - Selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post Book World, Amazon, and more. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readersto the frontlines of the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan, asking us to understandwhat happened there, and whathappened to the soldiers who returned.Interwoven with themes of brutality andfaith, guilt and fear, helplessness andsurvival, the characters in these storiesstruggle to make meaning out of chaos.In Redeployment a soldier who has hadto shoot dogs because they were eatinghuman corpses must learn what it is liketo return to domestic life in suburbia, surrounded by people "who have no ideawhere Fallujah is, where three membersof your platoon died." In "After ActionReport", a Lance Corporal seeks expiationfor a killing he didn't commit, in orderthat his best friend will be unburdened. AMorturary Affairs Marine tells about hisexperiences collecting remains--of U.S.and Iraqi soldiers both. A chaplain seeshis understanding of Christianity, and hisability to provide solace through religion, tested by the actions of a ferociousColonel. And in the darkly comic "Moneyas a Weapons System", a young ForeignService Officer is given the absurdtask of helping Iraqis improve theirlives by teaching them to play baseball.These stories reveal the intricatecombination of monotony, bureaucracy, comradeship and violence that makeup a soldier's daily life at war, and theisolation, remorse, and despair that can

From the author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided AmericaWhen Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago, after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime experiences-for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in war-from the revolutionary war of our founding, to the civil war that ended slavery, to the two world wars that launched America as a superpower. What did the current wars say about who we are as a country, and how should we respond as citizens?Unlike previous eras of war, few other Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible wars of the post-9/11 world at all; in fact, increasingly, few people are even aware they are still going on. It's as if there's a dark star with a strong gravitational force that draws a relatively small number of soldiers and their families into its orbit, while remaining inconspicuous to most other Americans. In the meantime, the consequences of American military action abroad may be out of sight and out of mind, but they are very real indeed.This chasm between military and civilian in American life, and the moral blind spot it has created, is one of the great themes of Uncertain Ground, Phil Klay's powerful series of reckonings in essay form over the past ten years with some of our country's thorniest concerns. In the name of what do we ask young Americans to kill, and to die? In the name of what does this country hang together? As we see at every turn in these pages, those two questions have a great deal to do with one another, and how we answer them will go a long way toward deciding where our troubled country goes from here.

One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year "Mr. Klay's bravura novel homes in on the ground-level consequences of American interference in Colombia's ongoing civil war and tumultuous peace process. But the engrossing local conflict is only part of the book's revelatory, panoramic portrayal of the remote yet interconnected ways that American-sponsored wars are waged across the globe." -Wall Street Journal The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives. For Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, and Lisette, a foreign correspondent, America's long post-9/11 wars in the Middle East exerted a terrible draw that neither is able to shake. Where can such a person go next? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with local government to keep predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason, now a liaison to the Colombian military, is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it. Juan Pablo, a Colombian officer, must juggle managing the Americans' presence and navigating a viper's nest of factions bidding for power. Meanwhile, Abel, a lieutenant in a local militia, has lost almost everything in the seemingly endless carnage of his home province, where the lines between drug cartels, militias, and the state are semi-permeable. Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none. Missionaries is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.

An astonishing novel about the moral cost of war, from the author of the National Book Award-winning Redeployment