中文简介：

本书讲述了士兵Gary Hines的故事，他的妹妹试图了解他创伤后应激障碍的生活状况，以及他退役十年后过早自杀的故事。Gary的信件、照片和私人物品为妹妹Jessica Hines提供了线索。Jessica Hines曾两次前往越南参加哥哥的战友聚会，在战后和哥哥的战友联系了数十年，并访问了哥哥去世的家。在找到哥哥的越南未婚妻的手写爱情宣言后，Jessica Hines还发现了一个惊人和神秘的爱情故事。通过哥哥的照片，Jessica Hines看到了塑造他的创伤经历的风景，并创造了记忆的幻觉。Jessica Hines通过使用有限的手段——阴影、放大和反射，创造不再存在的事物的图像，迎接发现和理解的挑战。这部作品讲述了一个关于失去、悲伤、希望、治愈、爱和战争后生活的故事——对老兵和他的家人和朋友都是如此。《哥哥的战争》讲述了世界各地在战争中失去或正在失去亲人的家庭，试图呼吁世界和平共处。

英文简介：

My Brother's War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sister's search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post Traumatic Stress – and his untimely death by his own hand ten years after returning home from war. Gary's letters, photographs, and his personal effects found in a small box, served as guides to Hines who travelled twice to Viet Nam, attended a reunion of his comrades, called army buddies decades after the war, and visited the home where he died. Finding handwritten declarations of love written by Gary's Vietnamese fiancé, Hines also uncovered a surprising and mysterious love story. Using her brother's photographs as starting points allowed Hines to see the landscapes that shaped his experiences of trauma and to create the illusion of memory. Using shadows, magnification, and reflections, Hines met the challenge of discovery and understanding by creating images, with limited means, of things that no longer exist. This work is the often untold story of loss, grief, hope, healing, love, and living in the aftermath of war – both for a veteran and for his family and friends. My Brother's War makes reference to families worldwide that have lost and are presently losing loved ones to war. Hines' work seeks to inspire, as the only alternative, a peaceful coexistence.