A Shout in the Ruins
A01=Kevin Powers
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
American
American fiction
Author_Kevin Powers
automatic-update
Category1=Fiction
Category=FA
Category=FBA
Category=FH
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Pre-order
detective
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
eq_thrillers
Guardian award
Iraq War
Language_English
le Carre
literary fiction
Military
Mystery
PA=Not yet available
Price_€10 to €20
prize winner
PS=Forthcoming
softlaunch
thriller
Virginia
Yellow Birds
Product details
- ISBN 9781399711524
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS
'A cracking mystery'
GUARDIAN
'Entertaining, intelligent, and effortlessly readable'
SUNDAY TIMES
'Stunning'
NEW YORK TIMES
'A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller'
DAVID BALDACCI, author of The 6:20 Man
'Tense and enthralling'
DAILY MAIL
'Taut and enjoyable'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'One of the best crime novels of the year'
IRISH TIMES
It's an early morning on a beach in Virginia when Arman Bajalan discovers a dead body. Convinced that the murder is connected to his work as an interpreter in Iraq, he knows he's still not safe.
Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man's pocket. But as victims mount around Arman, they find themselves in a deadly race, committed to unravelling the truth and keeping Arman alive - no matter the cost.
'A cracking mystery'
GUARDIAN
'Entertaining, intelligent, and effortlessly readable'
SUNDAY TIMES
'Stunning'
NEW YORK TIMES
'A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller'
DAVID BALDACCI, author of The 6:20 Man
'Tense and enthralling'
DAILY MAIL
'Taut and enjoyable'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'One of the best crime novels of the year'
IRISH TIMES
It's an early morning on a beach in Virginia when Arman Bajalan discovers a dead body. Convinced that the murder is connected to his work as an interpreter in Iraq, he knows he's still not safe.
Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her fresh-off-the-beat partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the man's pocket. But as victims mount around Arman, they find themselves in a deadly race, committed to unravelling the truth and keeping Arman alive - no matter the cost.
Kevin Powers' first novel, The Yellow Birds, won the Guardian First Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist. His poetry collection, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His second novel, A Shout in the Ruins, was published in 2018.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq.
