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''Redeployment'' is a collection of short stories by American writer Phil Klay. His first published book, it won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle's 2014 John Leonard Award given for a best first book in any genre. ==Background== The book comprises twelve stories that chronicle the experiences of soldiers and veterans who served during the Iraq War, specifically Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003 – 2010). Klay served in the United States Marine Corps from 2005 to 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Phil Klay: Ten Kliks South )〕 He was deployed to the Anbar Province in 2007–8. Klay has said that before and during his service in Iraq he did not have a "clear sense" that he was going to write about war, but that when he shared his plan to enter the military upon graduation, his Dartmouth College teacher and mentor, the American poet Tom Sleigh:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Author Phil Klay: 'I had a desire to serve my country and I'm a physical guy' )〕 Klay spent four years writing ''Redeployment''. The book's title story first appeared in the literary magazine ''Granta''. It was reprinted in ''Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War'', an anthology of war fiction. Klay has stated that the process of writing the stories that became ''Redeployment'' involved years of meticulous research. Klay has described his own deployment in Iraq as "a mild experience" where he did not see the war itself but only the effects of war second hand. To depict the war, he created a dozen characters, each with a different set of experiences and perspectives. Avoiding cliches and creating "prototypes", he has said, "was something I took very seriously. I did a lot a research, I talked to a lot of Marines, and spent a lot of time thinking about the subjects. Doing the kind of imaginative work, drafting stories over and over again until I had something that felt emotionally honest, which is also not the same as something that's going to please everyone who’s been through that experience." He said he needed multiples voices because: He said he had some models in mind of what he did not want to do: "There have been a couple books in the last couple years with almost comical misrepresentations of the military by authors who wanted to talk about Iraq, but clearly didn't want to do the hard work of learning enough about the subject to have something worth saying."〔 Klay included in ''Redeployment'' a list of works he read and found valuable in helping to shape his writing. He explained that:〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Redeployment (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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