Anatomy of a Soldier: A novel
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Anatomy of a Soldier is a stunning first novel—of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism—that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war.
Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable.
But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive.
The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.
List of Narrators:
Peter Altschuler
Paul Boehmer
Jonathan Cowley
Susan Duerden
Jayne Entwistle
Jean Gilpin
Kirby Heyborne
Gildart Jackson
John Lee
Bruce Mann
Katharine McEwan
Rob Shapiro
Nicholas Guy Smith
Steve West
Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable.
But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive.
The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.
List of Narrators:
Peter Altschuler
Paul Boehmer
Jonathan Cowley
Susan Duerden
Jayne Entwistle
Jean Gilpin
Kirby Heyborne
Gildart Jackson
John Lee
Bruce Mann
Katharine McEwan
Rob Shapiro
Nicholas Guy Smith
Steve West
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Harry Parker. (2016). Anatomy of a Soldier: A novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.
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Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable.
But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive.
The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.
List of Narrators:
Peter Altschuler
Paul Boehmer
Jonathan Cowley
Susan Duerden
Jayne Entwistle
Jean Gilpin
Kirby Heyborne
Gildart Jackson
John Lee
Bruce Mann
Katharine McEwan
Rob Shapiro
Nicholas Guy Smith
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Parker’s debut novel is a gripping wartime story boldly and creatively told from the points of view of inanimate objects surrounding those involved in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. These includes bullets, guns, drones, bombs, wheelchairs, catheters, prosthetic limbs, and an oscillating saw used during amputations, each of which provides a unique piece of the overall experience of a British captain, Tom Barnes, and his team’s involvement in the complicated struggle abroad. Barnes’s story frequently intersects with that of two young men, Faridun and Latif, who were close friends growing up in the war zone but are now torn apart by differing allegiances to those actively fighting the “infidels” and those who seek to restore the peace. The narrative vacillates between wartime scenes and their aftermath; many of the most affecting sequences involve Barnes back at home with family and friends as he recovers from his experience at war and adjusts to the new circumstances of his life. The tragic deterioration of the friendship between Faridun and Latif during Barnes’s time at war is brutal and heartbreaking. Parker, a former soldier himself, is invested in expressing the particulars of war with surprising intimacy, and the unique structure with multiple viewpoints ultimately reveals harsh truths about the countless cogs in the machine of war. A particularly detailed amputation scene is deliberately wrenching, and Parker’s unflinching tone lends the novel its lasting power.
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