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REDEPLOYMENT
《重新部署》(Redeployment)
By Phil Klay
菲爾·克雷(Phil Klay)著。
The Penguin Press, $26.95.
企鵝出版社(The Penguin Press)，26.95美元。
In this brilliant debut story collection, Klay — a former Marine who served in Iraq — shows what happens when young, heavily armed Americans collide with a fractured and deeply foreign country few of them even remotely understand. Iraq comes across not merely as a theater of war but as a laboratory for the human condition in extremis. The collection is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad: the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.
克雷是一位曾在伊拉克服役的前海軍陸戰隊戰士，在這部精彩的處女短篇小說集中，他寫了重重武裝的年輕美國戰士們在破敗的異國腹地鄉村發生的事，他們幾乎沒有人了解這個地方。伊拉克不僅是戰爭發生的舞臺，也是緊急關頭的人性實驗室。這部小說集時而令人捧腹，時而極度辛酸，時而深刻，時而悲傷，是迄今為止關于戰爭對人類靈魂影響的最佳作品。
