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Nov 25, 2005 · That’s the kind of press Uzodinma Iweala has been getting with his debut novel, Beasts of No Nation. While I’m still not quite ready to join the adulation force but this book is undoubtedly a worthwhile read. Beasts of No Nation tells the tale of Agu, a school-age boy in an unnamed country in western Africa that is in the throes of a civil war.
Oct 16, 2015 · Written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, “Beasts of No Nation” is based on Uzodinma Iweala’s harrowing, linguistically dazzling novel of a child soldier’s life. Mr. Iweala’s ...
Uzodinma Iweala is the author of Beasts of No Nation, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2007 he was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.
Nov 1, 2005 · Uzodinma Iweala. Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian born in the United States. He currently lives in New York City. His first novel, Beasts of No Nation, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Recreating the thoughts of a child ripped from childhood into the netherworld of a child soldier is never going to be easy.
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Other articles where Beasts of No Nation is discussed: Alain Mabanckou: …Nigerian American Uzodinma Iweala’s novel Beasts of No Nation into French. He also penned a tribute to American writer James Baldwin, Lettre à Jimmy (2007), and wrote two memoirs, Demain j’aurai vingt ans (2010; Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize), written in the voice of…
Aug 15, 2006 · Books. Beasts of No Nation: A Novel. Uzodinma Iweala. HarperCollins, Aug 15, 2006 - Fiction - 176 pages. In 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 ...
Nov 13, 2015 · Beasts of No Nation was initially a passion project for up-and-coming director Cary Fukunaga (director of season one of True Detective). Based on the book of the same name, it tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named Agu in a nameless West African country torn apart by civil war.
