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Missionaries
A Novel
Taschenbuch von Phil Klay
Sprache: Englisch

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The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment

"[This] compact epic of a novel contains perhaps Klay's finest writing yet…Using his formidable gifts for scene-setting, meaningful irony and deep human empathy, Klay weaves together a set of stories over the course of nearly three decades…Amid raging fires and illness and constitutional crises, Klay's book roars something vital: Never forget about war or the blood and bone and the evil and the reckless idealism of who we all really are." -Los Angeles Times

A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four American and Colombian characters and the conflicts that define their lives.

Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none. Missionaries is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.
The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment

"[This] compact epic of a novel contains perhaps Klay's finest writing yet…Using his formidable gifts for scene-setting, meaningful irony and deep human empathy, Klay weaves together a set of stories over the course of nearly three decades…Amid raging fires and illness and constitutional crises, Klay's book roars something vital: Never forget about war or the blood and bone and the evil and the reckless idealism of who we all really are." -Los Angeles Times

A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four American and Colombian characters and the conflicts that define their lives.

Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none. Missionaries is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.
Über den Autor
Phil Klay
Zusammenfassung
HIGH-OCTANE HARDCOVER LAUNCH: With a fantastic review on the cover of the NYTBR and a feature on "best reviewed of the week," MISSIONARIES accrued critical praise from all corners

BACKLIST TRACK: Klay's first book, Redeployment, was a triumph on every level and has become an ongoing backlist classic

TOPICAL AND THRILLING: Missionaries was hailed as a "novel of ideas," but it unfolds with the irresistible suspense of a high-end thriller
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 407
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781984880673
ISBN-10: 1984880675
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Klay, Phil
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books
Maße: 230 x 155 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Phil Klay
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
preigu-id: 120139534
Über den Autor
Phil Klay
Zusammenfassung
HIGH-OCTANE HARDCOVER LAUNCH: With a fantastic review on the cover of the NYTBR and a feature on "best reviewed of the week," MISSIONARIES accrued critical praise from all corners

BACKLIST TRACK: Klay's first book, Redeployment, was a triumph on every level and has become an ongoing backlist classic

TOPICAL AND THRILLING: Missionaries was hailed as a "novel of ideas," but it unfolds with the irresistible suspense of a high-end thriller
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 407
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781984880673
ISBN-10: 1984880675
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Klay, Phil
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books
Maße: 230 x 155 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Phil Klay
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
preigu-id: 120139534
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