"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.My Life as a Foreign Country takes us into the nightmare terrain of war. “The psychological consequences of war are movingly portrayed. A story of working through trauma, but above all it's a book about a man, a country, even a species beleaguered by a terrible attachment to war.” “A book.about the haunted past and a haunted man. This is a profound and beautiful work of art.” Each sentence has been carefully measured, weighed with loss and vitality, the hard-earned language of a survivor who has seen the world destroyed and written it back to life. “A brilliant fever dream of war's surreality, its lastingness, its place in families and in the fate of nations. Nick Flynn, author of The Reenactments and The Ticking Is the Bomb “Turner's voice is prophetic, an eerie calm in the midst of calamity.Achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful.” Mark Doty, author of Fire to Fire, winner of the National Book Award My Life as a Foreign Country is lyrical and restless, both ironic and profoundly empathetic.” “In Brian Turner's extraordinarily capable hands, language is war's undoing, in the sense that his words won't allow absurdity and terror to be anything less than real. Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I've ever encountered―a humane, heartbreaking, and expertly crafted work of literature.” “ My Life as a Foreign Country is brilliant and beautiful. “Turner is the rare soldier-writer who takes a deep interest in Iraqis―their language and literature, their past, their daily doings, their inner lives.” eloquent rendering illuminates both the shared space and the painful divide between poet and soldier, mission and memory, war and peace.” “Turner is.a poet, and he cannot help but see the world, even the world of combat, in terms of beauty, fragility and heartbreaking splendor. Jen Percy, The New York Times Book Review History can only be served by this kind of attention. Turner has a talent for amalgamating disparate experiences, especially between civilian and soldier, but also between history and the present.
“ praiseworthy example of how the empathetic imagination can function beautifully in nonfiction writing.
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