what will remain ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016*** edition by Dan Clements Literature Fiction eBooks
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The richly compelling début novel from the author described by The Times as a 'warrior poet', now shortlisted for the Not The Booker prize 2016
'You can tell from the first page that Dan Clements is a writer of real talent, with a warrior's eye and a poet's ear. what will remain is a complex, intelligent and wide-ranging examination of modern warfare, and the toll it exacts from those at the sharp end.' Tom Williams, screenwriter of Kajaki The True Story
'Dan Clements is a dedicated and talented writer who tells it not how we might want it to be, but how it is.' Sam Jordison
what will remain is a war novel born out of the author’s own experiences of serving with the Royal Marines in Afghanistan. It consists of a series of distinct but closely interwoven stories told against the backdrop of the conflict fragments of memory, sorrow and hope that build like impressionistic brushstrokes upon a canvas to create a profound and essential tableau of modern war and its place in society. Steeped vividly in the sun, sweat and sand of the Helmand front line but centred firmly within the treacherous battlefield of the human heart, what will remain is a harrowing and utterly captivating account from a richly talented début author.
what will remain ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016*** edition by Dan Clements Literature Fiction eBooks
Dan Clements’ WHAT WILL REMAIN, shortlisted for Not the Booker Prize for 2016, is a picture of the war in Afghanistan seen through the eyes of a British soldier. Clements who served in the British Marines joins a group of other good writers who make this never-ending war come to life. Although a short novel, WHAT WILL REMAIN is deadly in its depiction of what war does to everyone involved. I’m not sure that Mr. Clements says anything new on the subject; he, however, writes succinct, beautiful prose that at times will knock you off your feet. The novel consists of interrelated stories—several characters keep showing up in some of them—that pounce on how awful this war is. That subject, and that of the alienation between the returning soldiers and families and friends left back home—they are continuously asked if they killed anyone and how many and all the details—come back again and again. Another theme that keeps recurring is that soldiers, when they return to civilian life, do not often keep up with their friends. “And it is strange to think that, after everything that happened between them, the day Smudge left the Corps would be the very last day he would see Jacko, excepting a troop reunion on the fifth year. . .”There are so many images to break your heart: plywood coffins that are stored in a watercooler until shipped off. The men carrying the coffins on their shoulders could tell by their weight “the way things had gone down.” A soldier whose parachute didn’t open lies in a hospital bed so immobilized that he can only see a tiny strip of the ceiling and recognizes the other patients in the ward only by their screams. One man has accidentally shot his friend in the face. Mr. Clements also doses out a good amount of cynicism: the men are going over the etiquette of how to address a provincial governor. “I couldn’t ever remember going over the minutiae of making small talk with a middle-aged man who has recently married a child.” And there are flashes of humor. An American soldier is described as “the full cheeseburger.” But there are also scenes of joy. A double amputee learns to surf: “Marty came to the surface with a gasp, grinning and spitting saltwater and treading the water with his arms. It was wonderful to see him that way. In the dark of the water he looked whole and strong. . . After one wave he found Marty lying there on his back at the very edge of the surf, and Marty was looking up into the sky and smiling. . . he said wow, you can rally forget a whole lot out here, huh?”
The last few pages of Mr. Clements’ novel read like a prose poem and should be read again and again. The last lines pretty much sum up the novel. “. . . you realized the war had only taught you only one thing truly: how wonderful it is to be young, and what a weight of privilege on us left to grow old. And in some small way that made up for the things it had taken from us.”
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what will remain ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016*** edition by Dan Clements Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
finally some real literature appears out of the goatf*** of the last fifteen years. a writer who can look deep inside and outward and let it just flow clearly for others to see. outstanding.
Dan Clements’ WHAT WILL REMAIN, shortlisted for Not the Booker Prize for 2016, is a picture of the war in Afghanistan seen through the eyes of a British soldier. Clements who served in the British Marines joins a group of other good writers who make this never-ending war come to life. Although a short novel, WHAT WILL REMAIN is deadly in its depiction of what war does to everyone involved. I’m not sure that Mr. Clements says anything new on the subject; he, however, writes succinct, beautiful prose that at times will knock you off your feet. The novel consists of interrelated stories—several characters keep showing up in some of them—that pounce on how awful this war is. That subject, and that of the alienation between the returning soldiers and families and friends left back home—they are continuously asked if they killed anyone and how many and all the details—come back again and again. Another theme that keeps recurring is that soldiers, when they return to civilian life, do not often keep up with their friends. “And it is strange to think that, after everything that happened between them, the day Smudge left the Corps would be the very last day he would see Jacko, excepting a troop reunion on the fifth year. . .”
There are so many images to break your heart plywood coffins that are stored in a watercooler until shipped off. The men carrying the coffins on their shoulders could tell by their weight “the way things had gone down.” A soldier whose parachute didn’t open lies in a hospital bed so immobilized that he can only see a tiny strip of the ceiling and recognizes the other patients in the ward only by their screams. One man has accidentally shot his friend in the face. Mr. Clements also doses out a good amount of cynicism the men are going over the etiquette of how to address a provincial governor. “I couldn’t ever remember going over the minutiae of making small talk with a middle-aged man who has recently married a child.” And there are flashes of humor. An American soldier is described as “the full cheeseburger.” But there are also scenes of joy. A double amputee learns to surf “Marty came to the surface with a gasp, grinning and spitting saltwater and treading the water with his arms. It was wonderful to see him that way. In the dark of the water he looked whole and strong. . . After one wave he found Marty lying there on his back at the very edge of the surf, and Marty was looking up into the sky and smiling. . . he said wow, you can rally forget a whole lot out here, huh?”
The last few pages of Mr. Clements’ novel read like a prose poem and should be read again and again. The last lines pretty much sum up the novel. “. . . you realized the war had only taught you only one thing truly how wonderful it is to be young, and what a weight of privilege on us left to grow old. And in some small way that made up for the things it had taken from us.”
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