{"product_id":"green-on-blue-9781476778563","title":"Green on Blue","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Eden\u003c\/i\u003e and the National Book Award Finalist \u003ci\u003eDark at the Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, a \"compassionate, provocative, and alive\" (Vogue.com) debut war story about a young Afghan orphan, \"\u003ci\u003eGreen on Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is harrowing, brutal, and utterly absorbing. With spare prose, Ackerman has spun a morally complex tale of revenge, loyalty, and brotherly love\" (Khaled Hosseini, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAziz and his older brother Ali are coming of age in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan. They are poor, but inside their mud-walled home, the family has stability, love, and routine. One day a convoy of armed men arrives in their village and their world crumbles. The boys survive and make their way to a small city, where they gradually begin to piece together their lives. But when US forces invade the country, militants strike back. A bomb explodes in the market, and Ali is brutally injured. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo save his brother, Aziz must join the Special Lashkar, a US-funded militia. As he rises through the ranks, Aziz becomes mired in the dark underpinnings of his country's war, witnessing clashes between rival Afghan groups--what US soldiers call \"green on green\" attacks--and those on US forces by Afghan soldiers, violence known as \"green on blue.\" Trapped in a conflict both savage and contrived, Aziz struggles to understand his place. Will he embrace the brutality of war or leave it behind, and risk placing his brother--and a young woman he has come to love--in jeopardy? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen on Blue\u003c\/i\u003e has broken new ground in the literature of our most recent wars, accomplishing an astonishing feat of empathy and imagination. Writing from the Afghan perspective, \"Elliot Ackerman has done something brave as a writer and even braver as a soldier: He has touched, for real, the culture and soul of his enemy\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAckerman, Elliot:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Elliot Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. A former White House Fellow, his essays and fiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He currently lives in Istanbul where he writes on the Syrian Civil War. \u003ci\u003eGreen on Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492604743954,"sku":"9781476778563","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2476ef18-d81b-4b30-8bb5-d36739430763.jpg?v=1730598735","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/green-on-blue-9781476778563","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}