"Clear, authentic and beautifully written, Spoils is a book about war for people who don’t like books about war. Van Reet gives us a thriller that is not a thriller, but a grave and fierce description of the moral battlefield behind the headlines from Iraq." (Anne Enright)
"Brian Van Reet’s assured debut novel begins with one of the best opening chapters I’ve read... bear[s] eye-widening witness to valour, horror, violence, cruelty and absurdity... not only rewarding but necessary." (Marcel Theroux Guardian)
"Slaughterhouse Five, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Catch 22 ... there’s now a new novel to sit alongside these war fiction goliaths. Yes that’s hyperbolic, but we’re ready to stand by it. It’s that good. " (Shortlist)
"An instant addition to the canon of must-read war novels." (Olivia Cole GQ)
"Uncompromisingly depicts the terror and pity of war." (Stephanie Cross Daily Mail)
'Spoils is a harrowing and incredibly powerful debut. I read this with awe.' Kate Atkinson
It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in Baghdad are being beamed to news channels around the world. Nineteen-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two years earlier, is primed for war.
For Abu al-Hool, a jihadist since the days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, war is wearing thin. Two decades of fighting – and the new wave of super-radicalised fighters joining the ranks in the wake of the September 11 attacks – have left him questioning his commitment to the struggle.
When Cassandra is taken prisoner by al-Hool’s mujahideen brotherhood, both fighters will find their loyalties tested to the very limits.
This fast-paced, hard-hitting account of eight weeks in the lives of a soldier and her captor forces us to reconsider the simplistic narratives of war spun by those in power. With its privileged insight into the reality of armed combat, Spoils shines a light on the uncertainty, fear and idealism that characterised the early days of one of the most important conflicts of our time.
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Condición: Fine. A brilliantly written account of kidnap and conquest in the early years of theIraq war. Justine Jordan Guardian, Books of the Year. Nº de ref. del artículo: 4da44de0-2f62-42a8-9cea-d0f070578853
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