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Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.)
by Uzodinma Iweala (Author) Format: Kindle Edition★★★★★
★★★★★
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Customers find the book's story compelling and vivid, describing it as eye-opening and realistic. The writing style receives mixed reactions, with several customers finding it very hard to read and struggling with the broken English. The heartfelt story resonates with experiences of child soldiers, though one customer notes the author fails to capture the depth of sadness.
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“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 countryAs 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. Read more
Product Information
ASIN | B000UVBT04 |
Publisher | HarperCollins e-books |
Accessibility | Learn more |
Publication date | October 13, 2009 |
Edition | Reprint |
Language | English |
File size | 3.8 MB |
Screen Reader | Supported |
Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
X-Ray | Not Enabled |
Word Wise | Enabled |
Print length | 163 pages |
ISBN-13 | 978-0061844546 |
Page Flip | Enabled |
Lexile measure | 1140L |
Best Sellers Rank | #437,709 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #350 in Black & African American Literary Fiction #1,119 in Read & Listen for $14.99 or Less #1,253 in Political Thrillers & Suspense |
Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 557 ratings |