Redispatch
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"Redispatch" is Phil Clay's debut novel that won the National Book Award. These twelve short stories have a highly unified theme and focus on the living conditions of US troops who are in or have left the battlefield in Iraq (Afghanistan). Their hellish battlefield experiences left them unable to face life and return to daily life. Phil Clay sharply penetrated the psychological world of different characters in the Iraq War, including ordinary soldiers, soldiers in the funeral department, sergeants, psychological warfare soldiers, and military chaplains. Almost without exception, they detest war indifferently and cannot get rid of the bloodthirsty military honor; their beliefs come from absurd settings and imaginations of the enemy and ourselves. While they are full of shame about the role they play, they also have a strange and fearful sense of alienation towards the enemy.
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