Beasts of No Nation Paperback - 2006
by Uzodinma Iweala
Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. In a powerful, strikingly original debut that vividly captures Agu's youth and confusion, Iweala has produced a harrowing, deeply affecting novel.
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The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country--now a critically-acclaimed Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and starring Idris Elba (Mandela, The Wire).
As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning debut 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 new writer.
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- Title Beasts of No Nation
- Author Uzodinma Iweala
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, Scarborough, ON, Canada
- Date 2006-08-15
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780060798680 / 0060798688
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.16 x 4.9 x 0.55 in (18.19 x 12.45 x 1.40 cm)
- Reading level 1140
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: West Africa
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects War stories, Africa
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 08/27/2006, Page 24
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