{"product_id":"book-bsu6","title":"Anatomy of a Soldier","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a Soldier \u003c\/i\u003eis a stunning first novel—of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism—that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Narrators:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Altschuler\u003cbr\u003ePaul Boehmer\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Cowley\u003cbr\u003eSusan Duerden\u003cbr\u003eJayne Entwistle\u003cbr\u003eJean Gilpin\u003cbr\u003eKirby Heyborne\u003cbr\u003eGildart Jackson\u003cbr\u003eJohn Lee\u003cbr\u003eBruce Mann\u003cbr\u003eKatharine McEwan\u003cbr\u003eRob Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e Nicholas Guy Smith\u003cbr\u003eSteve West","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49335341285680,"sku":"BDbsu6","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/137761-bsu6-Square.jpg?v=1733926047","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bsu6","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}