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Beasts of No Nation

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Availability:In StockContributor:Uzodinma IwealaSeries:P.S.Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2022-10-12Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780060798680ISBN-10:60798688UPC:9780060798680Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, War & Military, PoliticalSize:7.16 x 4.90 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SC5A54QZ5P

"Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence." --Entertainment Weekly (A)

The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country

As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. 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 continues to spin further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood.

In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu's new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary writer.

Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollinsISBN-13:9780060798680ISBN-10:60798688UPC:9780060798680Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, War & Military, PoliticalSize:7.16 x 4.90 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SC5A54QZ5P
Iweala, Uzodinma: -

Uzodinma Iweala received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, all for Beasts of No Nation. He was also selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he lives in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.

Publisher: HarperCollins

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