A Shout in the Ruins

by Kevin Powers

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Pub Date 15 May 2018 | Archive Date 15 Jul 2018

General Fiction (Adult)

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* One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018 *

'Achingly relevant' - Grazia

'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times

'An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent' - Andrew Motion, Observer

'Contains moments that burn' Daily Mail

A stunning novel about violence, power and love by Kevin Powers, the acclaimed author of The Yellow Birds and winner of both the 2012 Guardian First Book Award and the Hemingway/PEN Award.

A nighttime whipping in a lamplit barn.

A ruined leg tossed onto a pile of discarded limbs.

A hand snuffing out a desperate cry behind a bedroom's locked door.

In A Shout in the Ruins, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the Civil War and ninety years later. The novel pinpoints with unerring emotional depth the nature of random violence, the necessity of love and compassion, and the fragility and preciousness of life. It will endure as a stunning novel about what we leave behind, what a life is worth, what is said and unsaid, and the fact that ultimately what will survive of us is love.

Written with the same emotional intensity, harrowing realism, and poetic precision that made The Yellow Birds one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in the Ruins cements Powers' place as one of the most important novelists of our time.

'Beautifully formed sentences express unsettling truths about humanity, yet tendrils of hope emerge, showing how love and kindness can take root in seemingly barren earth.' - Sarah Johnson, Booklist

* One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018 *

'Achingly relevant' - Grazia

'Gorgeous and devastating' New York Times

'An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent' - ...

Advance Praise

'A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one.' - Elliot Ackerman, author of DARK AT THE CROSSING

'A masterpiece. Powers has written a novel that includes all the ferocity, complexity, and racial violence of the American South, from its fall to its eventual rebirth.' - Philipp Meyer

'Kevin Powers has seamlessly woven nineteenth and twentieth century lives to create a novel that resonates out of the past to address the most timely issues of America in our own century. The same striking language and contemplation of war and its aftermath that made The Yellow Birds such a lauded debut is on full display in A Shout in the Ruins. What an impressive novel.' - RonRash

'A harrowing and lyrical epic in miniature, Powers has written a novel excavated from another time, but which speaks profoundly to this one.' - Elliot Ackerman, author of DARK AT THE CROSSING

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