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Iweala, Uzodinma.
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Child soldiers -- Fiction.
Guerrilla warfare -- Fiction.
Africa, West -- Fiction
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Iweala, Uzodinma.
Child soldiers -- Fiction.
Guerrilla warfare -- Fiction.
Africa, West -- Fiction
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Beasts of no nation : a novel / Uzodinma Iweala.
by
Iweala, Uzodinma.
HarperCollins, c2005.
Call #:
FICTION
IWE
Subjects
Child soldiers --
Fiction
.
Guerrilla warfare --
Fiction
.
Africa, West --
Fiction
ISBN:
9780062420114 (2015 Harper Perennial movie tie-in trade pbk.)
9780060798680 (2006 Harper Perennial pbk.)
9780060798673
006079867X
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
142 p. ; 19 cm.
Summary:
"A stunning debut novel. A disturbing look into the mind of a young soldier who slowly hardens to the brutal reality of a civil war."-- HPL Readers Advisor.
"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."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
War
fiction
Bildungsromans.
Black
fiction
.
First novel.
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