Book of the Month for July: Kevin Powers on The Yellow Birds

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Soldier turned poet and novelist Kevin Powers' dazzling debut The Yellow Birds is our Book of the Month for July...

Taking a deep breath, Iraq war veteran Powers' The Yellow Birds has so far won The Guardian First Book Award, The Hemingway/Pen Award, The National Book Award, The Oxfam Emerging Writers Prize, and been listed as a book of the year by The Independent, The Irish Times, The Times, The Evening Standard, The Scotsman, The Sunday Herald, The New York Times and the TLS.

Powers' devastating yet lyrical discussion of the impact of war on young lives is filled with a yearning to understand - a need to comprehend why we fight. We spoke to him about the book, and his writing, on a visit to London last month.

 

You can buy The Yellow Birds at your local Waterstones bookshop (http://bit.ly/Yu5LpV) or online at Waterstones.com (http://bit.ly/18ggEBy)

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