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Redeployment, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin

The Centre for Post-Conflict Justice - Phil Kay reading of his collection of short stories 'Redeployment'

Date and Time: Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 6 pm

Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

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The Centre for Post-Conflct Justice, Trinity College Dublin, welcomes the 2014 National Book Foundation winner for fiction, PHIL KLAY, in a reading of his collection of short stories 'Redeployment.

"The best thing written so far on what the war did to people's souls."
- Dexter Filkins, The New York Times

"The best literary work thus far written by a veteran of America's recent wars ... a masterly collection of short stories about war and its psychological consequences."Redeployment" is military for "return," and Klay's fiction peels back every pretty falsehood and self-delusion in the encounter between veterans and the people for whom they supposedly fought."
- George Packer, The New Yorker

PHIL KLAY was named a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree. In 2015 he received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundations James Webb award for fiction dealing with U.S. Marines or Marine Corps life and the National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Award for best debut work in any genre. He was also shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Granta.

Reservations

This event is free to attend: lawevent at tcd.ie