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Set in an unnamed West African country, Iweala's first novel shows civil war from a child's viewpoint. -- Booklist
HarperCollins
November 2005
On Sale: November 1, 2005
160 pages
ISBN: 006079867X
EAN: 9780060798673
Hardcover
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In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an
unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of
guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country.
Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of
militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is
vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new
commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced
from the life he had known before the conflict started -- a
life of school friends, church services, and time with his
family still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier
times, his daily reality spins further downward into
inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood.
His relationship with his commander deepens even as it
darkens, and his camaraderie with a fellow soldier lends a
deceptive sense of normalcy to his experience. In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly
captures Agu's youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has
produced a harrowing, deeply affecting novel. Both a
searing take on coming-of-age and a vivid document of the
dark face of war, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival
of an extaordinary new writer.
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