My serial number is 6545-01-522. I was unpacked from a plastic case, pulled open, checked and reassembled. A black marker wrote BA5799 O POS on me and I was placed in the left thigh pocket BA5799’S combat trousers. I stayed there; the pocket was rarely unfastened.
Imagine if your whole life changed in the blink of an eye...
Captain Tom Barnes is leading British troops into a war zone when he is gravely injured by an exploding IED.
This devastating moment and the transformative months that follow are narrated here by forty-five objects, shifting back and forwards in time, separate pieces in a puzzle, telling one unforgettable story.
'Marvellously told' - Alan Bennett
'Alive to every nuance of feeling' - Hilary Mantel
'A brilliant book' - Edna O'Brien
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571325832
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 309 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
Edition: Main
This is the story of Captain Tom Barnes in a war zone and his story told through 45 objects effecting his life. It is not like anything you 've ever read before , highly original. It gives you a different... More
Writing about the brutality of modern warfare is no easy feat when trying to capture the reader. What Harry Parker has done with his debut novel Anatomy of a Solider is take this to the next level and see the... More
It’s an intriguing construct, but one that works beautifully for Harry Parker’s blistering debut. Using the narrative voices of 45 inanimate objects – the ephemera of war – we are given the fragments of a soldier’s... More
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