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by Pavel Hak (Author), Gerry Feehily (Translator) "My duty is to kill ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail (31 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852428562
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852428563
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 12.2 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 928,136 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'One hundred pages of rage and fierceness, which are amongst the strongest ever read. A brilliantly cut diamond which leaves you breathless in wonder at the power of fiction... Sniper is a passionate reflection on war: the war that transforms ordinary people into formidable butchers' Telerama 'His first novel, Safari, was unbelievably obscene and savage. Sniper is even more in your face but strangely the author finds ways of making it bearable' Liberation 'With Sniper, Pavel Hak continues his war against stories that are told to us, novels without body, texts devoid of the real, behind which hide storytellers. He wants: "No more disinformation, no more falsified news, no more bending of reality" ' Les Inrockuptibles Translated by Gerry Feehlly"


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In an unnamed country, a group of fugitives flee their native village after an attack by the army. Their houses bombed and ransacked, their husbands, children, parents killed, they are seeking sanctuary across the border. In the winter ice a man tries to unearth the remains of his mother and father from a mass grave, determined to take them to a proper burial place. A sadistic military commander, before a group of young officers and the terrified women they have abducted, outlines a terrifying plan of torture, rape and murder in order to prop up his country's crumbling empire. Meanwhile, in an underground gallery, a sniper hides, picking off innocents in a besieged city. His apocalyptic, hallucinatory voice provides Sniper with its main themes, the insanity of war and the terrifying exhllaration it excites in its perpetrators.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sniper - More than Just a Shoot 'em Up Novella, 5 Jan 2006
I found Sniper to be explicit, exciting and most importantly, a nauseating trip into the minds of the forces committing genocide, and the sniper sitting above, aiming down on it all. They are intent on killing and abusing humans and violating their frail rights, that’s easy to see, but it’s the survival of the victims that gives the story a welcome relief from the rape and gore. There's no use reading Sniper if you have a weak stomach - you really have to want to go to the depths of depravity. It’s also a poignant reminder about humans in general – death has a character and motive.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Gruesomely, pornographically violent, 31 Mar 2005
By Barton Keyes "barton keyes" (England) - See all my reviews
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Purporting to be the narrative of a series of episodes from a civil war in an un-named state on the fringes of Europe this book is only for those with strong stomachs. The thoughts of the sniper form some sort of linking thread and loopy politico-philosophical underpinning to the terrible events that are related but the bulk of the story is what happens to a group of villagers displaced by a raid by "the enemy" -- who are then abused, tortured, raped and murdered in particularly bloody ways.

The writing is undoubtedly powerful and the translation fluid -- but this is not an easy read and the events it recounts will probably haunt you long after you have finished it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and graphic but also a little to blunt, 1 Jun 2006
By Chris Chalk "Chris" (Croydon, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Paval Hak's first foray into an English translation novel (and only his second in any language) is a high octane, emotion soaked cruise through the devasted underbelly of life in a war zone.

It tells a story from a multitude of angles, the nameless Sniper who perches high above picking off men, women and children with unerring precision, feeling nothing for his victims and considering their lives forfeit to his craft. The terrifying things a mute female prisoner sees and her battle to save but a few people. The ogres that command the armed forces, ever changed by the atrocities they have seen and capable of seeing the enemy of nothing more than vermin.

Pavel Hak's novel is no morale paradox, it is an outright assault on the institute of war and the purveyors of misery, he doesn't hold back at all and that for me was the one short coming of the book, I can life with the violence, that is a facet of war but he did (for me) miss a trick by not trying to include more of the morale dilemma that soldiers must go through each day. Yes I even mean that for the ones that are raping and pillaging.

In summary I wouldn't say I enjoyed this book, it is a very difficult book to enjoy but I did find it a worthwhile read if a somewhat blunt instrument into life in a war zone. As has been mentioned before its not one for those of a delicate stomach but if you are interested in a powerful novel I would say this for you.
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