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Pink Mist

By: Publication details: United Kingdom; Faber & Faber; 01 May 2014Description: 96 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780571315574
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.92
Summary: This is the winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink. Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a girlfriend), all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service. A work of great dramatic power, documentary integrity and emotional intensity, Pink Mist uses everyday yet heightened speech to excavate the human cost of modern warfare. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers and their families, as well as ancient texts such as the medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin, it is the first extended lyric narrative to emerge from the devastating conflict in Afghanistan.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Poetry and Drama 821.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn Not For Loan Book Bazaar PKLC002865
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Poetry and Drama 821.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn For Sale PKLC006205
Total holds: 0

This is the winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink. Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a girlfriend), all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service. A work of great dramatic power, documentary integrity and emotional intensity, Pink Mist uses everyday yet heightened speech to excavate the human cost of modern warfare. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers and their families, as well as ancient texts such as the medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin, it is the first extended lyric narrative to emerge from the devastating conflict in Afghanistan.

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