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Sep 3, 2005 · Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala 184pp, John Murray, £12.99. Earlier this year Granta published Delia Jarrett-Macauley's first novel, Moses, Citizen and Me, the considered and multi-layered ...
Oct 16, 2015 · Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Drama, War. Not Rated. 2h 17m. By A.O. Scott. Oct. 15, 2015. “A boy is a dangerous thing,” says the Commandant, who leads an army of young soldiers fighting a ...
Beasts of No Nation gives us an extraordinary portrait of the chaos and violence of war. It is a gripping and remarkable debut. A stunning novel about a child-soldier in Africa that introduces a brilliant young writer and will be much discussed.
Sep 10, 2015 · Beasts of No Nation. Uzodinma Iweala. John Murray Press, Sep 10, 2015 - Fiction - 192 pages. Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to fight the rebels. 'Run!' shouts his father when the rebels arrive. And Agu does run. Straight into the rebels' path.
"Beasts of No Nation" hat mich hin- und hergerissen. Den Anfang fand ich furios; mit Agus Gefangennahme durch Strika und seine Begegnung mit dem Commandant den Roman beginnen zu lassen und damit den Leser mitten in die Problematik zu werfen, fand ich geglückt. Auch der Rückblick auf Agus Leben vor seiner Gefangennahme hat mich überzeugt.
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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 country As civil war rages in an unnamed ...
Jun 5, 2006 · “[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 ...
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