Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction "Redeployment is
hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It's the best thing written
so far on what the war did to people's souls." -Dexter Filkins, The
New York Times Book Review 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 Phil Klay'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. 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 "Redeployment", 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 "who
have no idea where Fallujah is, where three members of your platoon
died." In "After Action Report", a Lance Corporal seeks expiation
for a killing he didn't commit, in order that his best friend will
be unburdened. A Morturary Affairs Marine tells about his
experiences collecting remains-of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers both. A
chaplain sees his understanding of Christianity, and his ability to
provide solace through religion, tested by the actions of a
ferocious Colonel. And in the darkly comic "Money as a Weapons
System", a young Foreign Service Officer is given the absurd task
of helping Iraqis improve their lives by teaching them to play
baseball. These stories reveal the intricate combination of
monotony, bureaucracy, comradeship and violence that make up a
soldier's daily life at war, and the isolation, remorse, and
despair that can accompany a soldier's homecoming. Redeployment has
become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations
and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a
soldier inhabits: one of extremes and one of loss. 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.
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