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È con una prospettiva nuova che Brian Van Reet racconta, da reduce, il conflitto armato nella vasta crisi mediorientale, portando il lettore sul campo, accanto ai soldati, a respirarne le illusioni infrante, i compromessi con la coscienza, gli orrori fatti di carne e sangue. La giovanissima Cassandra Wigheard, donna soldato arrivata in Iraq nel 2003 per sfuggire alla desolazione della provincia americana, cade in un’imboscata dei jihadisti e si risveglia in una cella buia e lurida, dove ogni sforzo è volto a sopravvivere ad abusi e atrocità, e dove la prossimità fisica con il nemico riesce a creare relazioni umane molto più complesse di quanto lei avrebbe mai pensato prima di partire. Come Cassandra, il giovane carrista Sleed, il cui pensiero può riassumersi nella massima «ogni scelta è così cruciale che diventa inutile preoccuparsene», e l’egiziano Abu al-Hool, mujaheddin tormentato dal dubbio, rendono concreto, tangibile, terribile il teatro di guerra, facendolo percepire per quello che è: caos.
- ISBN: 8823523958
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 300
- Data di uscita: 31-10-2018
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In 2003 as American forces have taken over Baghdad a group of American troops is captured and held prisoner by jihadists. The book follows three people's perspectives, Cassandra who is one of the troops that has been captured and is a POW, Sleed who is a crewman and specialist taking advantage of th Leggi tutto
Spoils is both fast-paced and hard to put down. This story covers eight weeks during the early stages of the war in Iraq in 2003. It is written from three points of view, but I mostly connected with young female American soldier, Specialist Cassandra Wigheard and a Jihadist called Abu al-Hool. Be war Leggi tutto
A gripping literary novel about jihadism and US the invasion of Iraq. Don't expect an action-packed war novel, this is not that kind of book. Rather, it tells the tale of a female US gunner who is captured along with two of her colleagues, a male US tank crewman who is part of the effort to find and Leggi tutto
Spoils takes readers into the Iraq war, stripping away the facade of accepted views of the enemy and the justification of war to reveal the complicated reality. Debut author Brian Van Reet knows his subject. He left university to enlist in the U. S. Army after the September 11 attacks, serving as a
More book reviews on www.snazzybooks.com . For me, Spoils is a tricky book to write about. There were parts of it I found deeply fascinating and which really hooked me in – mainly the parts where Cassandra is in captivity, which were so disturbing but at the same time incredibly interesting to read a Leggi tutto
This one can be placed right beside ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY... it is that powerful and important a novel of war and the effects. Van Reet gives you stories from both sides of Baghdad in 2003, the three main characters are all wonderfully crafted
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