Green On Blue

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Green On Blue
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Elliot Ackerman
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 127
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
War and combat fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781907970795
ClassificationsDewey:813.6
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Daunt Books
Imprint Daunt Books
Publication Date 23 March 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Aziz and his older brother Ali live in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan. There is no school, but their mother teaches them to read and write, and once a month sends the boys on a two-day journey to the bazaar. They are poor, but inside their mud-walled home, the family has stability, love, and routine. When a convoy of armed men arrives in the village one day, their parents disappear and their world is shattered. In order to survive Aziz must join the Special Lashkar, a US-funded militia always hungry for Afghan recruits. No longer a boy, but not yet a man, he departs for the untamed border. Trapped in a conflict both savage and entirely contrived, Aziz struggles to understand his place. Will he embrace the brutality of war or leave it behind, and risk placing his brother - and a young woman he comes to love - in jeopardy? Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has written a gripping, morally complex debut novel, an astonishing feat of empathy and imagination about boys caught in a deadly conflict.

Author Biography

Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He is a former White House Fellow whose essays and fiction have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New Republic and the New York Times. He currently lives in Istanbul, where he writes on the Syrian Civil War.