Kevin Powers

Cette plantation est au centre du second roman de Kevin Powers, dans lequel il tente d'approcher la vérité de ceux qui y ont vécu. Nul n'a jamais su par exemple ce qu'il était advenu d'Emily Levallois. A-t-elle péri en 1865 dans l'incendie criminel de la plantation, dont elle est la coupable désignée, et qui a causé la mort de son esclavagiste de mari ? Ou bien a-t-elle réinventé sa vie ailleurs, comme le suppose la rumeur. L'Histoire ne le dit pas, laissant au romancier le soin d'en décider. L'Histoire ne dit pas plus ce que sont devenus Rawls et Nurse, ce couple d'esclaves affranchis dont le destin est intimement lié a la plantation. Des années plus tard (dans les années 1950), a Richmond, un vieil homme cherche lui aussi a retracer sa propre histoire. De ses origines il ne sait rien, sinon qu'il a été recueilli par Miss Dolores a l'âge de trois ans, après qu'elle l'ait trouvé devant sa porte, avec ce mot : « Suffolk, Virginie 1866. Je m'appelle Georges. J'ai presque trois ans. Prenez soin de moi. » À travers les destins croisés de ces personnages a la dérive, Kevin Powers replonge dans l'histoire violente et déchirée du Sud et explore cette question depuis toujours au coeur des hommes : quelle trace sur terre laissons-nous ?

Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.

Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012 WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012: BEST BOOKS OF 2012 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a modern classic. Everywhere John looks, he sees Murph. He flinches when cars drive past. His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasnt 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 mans mother, that her son would be brought home safely. With THE YELLOW BIRDS, poet and veteran Kevin Powers has composed an unforgettable account of friendship and loss. It vividly captures the desperation and brutality of war, and its terrible after-effects. But it is also a story of love, of great courage, and of extraordinary human survival. 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. THE YELLOW BIRDS is the All Quiet on the Western Front of Americas Arab Wars. (Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities ) Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of wars effect on the individual. (Damian Lewis, star of Homeland and Band of Brothers ) Inexplicably beautiful. (Ann Patchett, Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder)

Bartle, 21 ans, est soldat en Irak, à Al Tafar. Depuis l''entraînement, lui et Murph, 18 ans, sont inséparables. Bartle a fait la promesse de le ramener vivant au pays. Une promesse qu''il ne pourra

Chaque matin à l’aube, Arman Bajalan se rend sur la plage d’Ocean View, en Virginie, avant de prendre son poste d’agent d’entretien au Sea Breeze Motel. Le jour où cet ancien interprète de l’armée am

A cracking mysteryGUARDIANEntertaining, intelligent, and effortlessly readableSUNDAY TIMESStunningNEW YORK TIMESA kickass mystery from a superb storytellerDAVID BALDACCI, author of The 6:20 ManTense and enthrallingDAILY MAILTaut and enjoyableDAILY TELEGRAPHIts an early morning on a beach in Virginia when Arman Bajalan discovers a dead body. Convinced that the murder is connected to his work as an interpreter in Iraq, he knows hes still not safe.Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the mans pocket. But as victims mount around Arman, they find themselves in a deadly race, committed to unravelling the truth and keeping Arman alive - no matter the cost.

Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.

The award-winning author of The Yellow Birds returns with an extraordinary debut poetry collection. National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting captures the many moments that comprise a soldiers life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown in the dry Iraq heat; writing a love letter; listening to a mother recount her dreams. Written with evocative language and discernment, Powerss poetry strives to make sense of the war and its echoes through human experience. Just as The Yellow Birds was hailed as the "first literary masterpiece produced by the Iraq war," this collection will make its mark as a powerful, enduring work (Los Angeles Times).

Finaliste du National Book Award, Kevin Powers a connu un succès international avec son premier roman Yellow birds, écrit à son retour d’Irak, où il a servi en 2004 et 2005. Il trouve dans la poésie

Bartle, 21 ans, est soldat en Irak, à Al Tafar. Depuis l’entraînement, lui et Murph, 18 ans, sont inséparables. Bartle a fait la promesse de le ramener vivant au pays. Une promesse qu’il ne pourra pa

Shortlisted for the 2014 TS Eliot PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best First CollectionPoetry Book Society ChoiceIn this remarkable debut poetry collection, National Book Award finalist and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers creates a startling, affecting portrait of a life shaped by war. LETTER COMPOSED DURING A LULL IN THE FIGHTING captures the many moments that comprise a soldiers life: driving down the Texas highway; waiting for the unknown in the dry Iraq heat; writing a love letter; listening to a mother recount her dreams. Written with honesty and insight, these poems strive to make sense of war and its echoes through human experience.Just as THE YELLOW BIRDS was hailed as the first literary masterpiece produced by the Iraq war, (Los Angeles Times) this collection will prove to be a powerful, enduring classic.

* One of the Amazon Editors Best Books of 2018 *Achingly relevant - GraziaGorgeous and devastatingNew York TimesAn American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent - Andrew Motion, ObserverContains moments that burn Daily MailA stunning novel about violence, power and love by Kevin Powers, the acclaimed author of The Yellow Birds and winner of both the 2012 Guardian First Book Award and the Hemingway/PEN Award.A nighttime whipping in a lamplit barn.A ruined leg tossed onto a pile of discarded limbs. A hand snuffing out a desperate cry behind a bedrooms locked door.In A Shout in the Ruins, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.Written with the same emotional intensity, harrowing realism, and poetic precision that made The Yellow Birds one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in the Ruins cements Powers place as one of the most important novelists of our time.Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth. - Sarah Johnson, Booklist

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and BOOK OF THE YEARExtraordinary . . . a must-readGuardianA masterpiece . . . a classicThe TimesA stunning achievementSunday TimesRemarkable . . . every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify Hilary MantelHarrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary Ann PatchettEverywhere John looks, he sees Murph.He flinches when cars drive past. His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasnt 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 mans 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

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Yellow Birds comes a gorgeous, haunting love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France.Children of the Wild is a wonderful, poignant novel that deserves to be on as many shelves and reside in as many hearts as possible David BaldacciI inhaled this heart-wrenching epic...a breathtaking story of three young people coming together and coming of age Rachel BeanlandA novel of extraordinary beauty and power Ben FountainEwers Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, determined to leave this rural valley and make his mark on the twentieth century. Samantha Hatton, the ministers daughter, knows the town expects her and Roy to marry, but she hungers for more. The arrival of Ennis Duke - a mysterious wild boy tending to a lost herd of cattle up the mountain - will change everything.Within a year, the lives of these three young people will be dramatically transformed. In the crucible of conflict, Roy and Ennis forge a fierce bond. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Samanthas love and courage endure unthinkable sacrifice in a corner of the world fractured by violence.With the spare, exquisite prose and the profound insight that made The Yellow Birds a landmark work of American fiction, Kevin Powers illuminates the savage, complex, and timeless bonds of loyalty, honour, and heroism. Children of the Wild captures what it means to be human in times of loss - and how, even in darkness, the light of friendship and love endures.

"Powers never falters in the belief in his creations flawed humanity, the power of raw goodness, and the fact that redemption is open to any who genuinely seek it. It is a wonderful, poignant novel that deserves to be on as many shelves and reside in as many hearts as possible." David BaldacciFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of The Yellow Birds comes a gorgeous, haunting love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France.Ewers Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge to modernize his familys farm and bring them properly into the twentieth century.Samantha Hatton, the ministers daughter and Roys best friend since childhood, knows that both Roy and the town expect them to marry. But Samantha, a daring and ambitious young woman, hungers for more.Above them on the mountain, tending to a lost herd of cattle, is silent Ennis Duke, the mysterious wild boy whose arrival in the valley will upend Ewers Rocks understanding of itself and its place in the world.Within a year, the lives of these three young people will be dramatically transformed. America has joined the Great War, and Roy and Ennis feel duty-bound to join the fight. In the crucible of conflict, thousands of miles from the familiarity of home, the two men forge a fierce bond. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Samanthas love and courage endure unthinkable sacrifice in a corner of the world fractured by violence.With the spare and exquisite prose and the profound insight that made The Yellow Birds a landmark work of American fiction, Kevin Powers illuminates the savage, complex, and timeless bonds of loyalty, honor, and heroism. Children of the Wild captures what it means to be human in times of lossand how, even in darkness, the light of friendship and love endures.

A sus veintiún años, el soldado Bartle es enviado a combatir en la guerra de Irak, junto con un compañero de dieciocho años, el soldado Murphy, de quien se hace cargo desde el comienzo. Narrada a traves de los ojos de Bartle, Los pajaros amarillos cuenta de primera mano el sinsentido de una guerra librada bajo un sol feroz, combatiendo a un enemigo ubicuo, en ciudades convertidas en fantasmas. Entre muchas otras cosas, la guerra le roba para siempre a Bartle su presente, y vivira atrapado por los recuerdos que lo atormentan, intentando comprender acciones que a la distancia ya no le parecen ni suyas ni de nadie mas.Los pajaros amarillos ha sido comparada a grandes novelas de guerra como las escritas por Hemingway, Norman Mailer y Tim OBrien. Powers combina el conocimiento adquirido en carne propia con una prosa elegante y poetica, que transportan al lector al campo de batalla, y viva la guerra de Irak como algo mas real que la cronica periodistica mas cruenta que jamas haya leido.