Beasts of No Nation - Softcover

Iweala, Uzodinma

3.79

6,517 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062420119 ISBN 13: 9780062420114

Publisher: Perennial, 2015

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A tour de force. Washington Post Book WorldIn 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, 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.In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu s youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, inventive, and deeply affecting novel. A startling debut. The New Yorker A remarkable novel that suggests a dazzling literary future. People"

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Review:

"[Beasts of No Nation] is a work of visceral urgency...it heralds the arrival of a major talent."--Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace

"Uzodinma Iweala is a gifted and brave writer."--Chris Abani, author of GraceLand

"An astonishing debut."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A harrowing account of the intoxication of violence...that offers no easy answers or explanations."--Library Journal

"This is an extraordinary book. . . . It's so vivid [and] powerful."--Sunday Telegraph

"A raw, compelling first novel."--Literary Review

"A powerful debut."--The Times of London

"A brilliant debut. . . . This is a remarkable novel that suggests a dazzling literary future."--People (****)

"Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice."--Entertainment Weekly (A)

"A startling debut.... Iweala's acute imagining allows him to depict the war as a mesh of bestial pleasures and pain."--The New Yorker

Book Description:

A stunning novel about a child-soldier in Africa that introduces a brilliant young writer and will be much discussed.

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