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REDEPLOYMENT
《重新部署》(Redeployment)
By Phil Klay
菲尔·克雷(Phil Klay)著。
The Penguin Press, $26.95.
企鹅出版社(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军陆战队战士，在这部精彩的处女短篇小说集中，他写了重重武装的年轻美国战士们在破败的异国腹地乡村发生的事，他们几乎没有人了解这个地方。伊拉克不仅是战争发生的舞台，也是紧急关头的人性实验室。这部小说集时而令人捧腹，时而极度辛酸，时而深刻，时而悲伤，是迄今为止关于战争对人类灵魂影响的最佳作品。
