SONG FOR NIGHT - Softcover

Chris Abani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933354313 ISBN 13: 9781933354316

Publisher: AKASHIC BOOKS, 2008

Synopsis

Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier's terrifying yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. The protagonist is voiceless - cutting child mine-clearers' throats being a standard proceedure to stop them screaming when blown up and distracting other minesweepers. ""Chris Abani might be the most courageous writer working right now."" - Dave Eggers

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Review:

'Chris Abani might be the most courageous writer working right now. He writes like an angel. If you want to get at the molten heart of contemporary fiction, Abani is the starting point.' Dave Eggers'Abani is a fiction writer of mature and bounteous gifts ... Song for Night contains, at once, an extraordinary ferocity and a vulnerable beauty all its own.' The New York Times 'A devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away.' Los Angeles Times'Abani writes in a fearless prose.' Time Out Chicago'An impressive and fast-paced barrage of description and observation of war narrated with such dry and lucid precision that it brings to mind Babel, Hemingway, McCarthy.' Esquire

About the Author:

Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).

About this edition

• Publisher: AKASHIC BOOKS
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1933354313
• ISBN 13: 9781933354316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164