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Missionaries
Phil Klay
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Description for Missionaries
Paperback.
'Expansive, explosive and epic' Marlon James
'A courageous book' New York Times Book Review
A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR
Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet, for them, war still exerts a terrible draw - the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go?
All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with the local government to stamp out a vicious civil war and keep the predatory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781838852320
SKU
9781838852320
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Phil Klay
Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. He served in Iraq during the surge and subsequently received an MFA from Hunter College. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker and Granta. He is co-host of the Manifesto! podcast and is the author of Redeployment, which was a New ... Read more
Reviews for Missionaries
[A] sweeping, searing, wrenching and wise addition to the great literature of America's postwar imperialism
Guardian, Book of the Day
If Redeployment was about what happened when we ship wars abroad, then Missionaries is what happens when war comes roaring right back. Expansive, explosive, and epic
MARLON JAMES Wrenching and insightful
... Read more
Guardian, Book of the Day
If Redeployment was about what happened when we ship wars abroad, then Missionaries is what happens when war comes roaring right back. Expansive, explosive, and epic
MARLON JAMES Wrenching and insightful
... Read more