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Nov 8, 2005 · Hardcover – November 8, 2005. The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country—now a critically-acclaimed Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and starring Idris Elba (Mandela, The Wire). As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African ...
Sep 7, 2021 · This book is not for the faint of heart. It is a fictionalized account of the guerrilla warfare in Africa. Beasts of No Nation has become a Netflix original film as well. The story evolves around Agu, a young boy who is haunted by his father's death, and thrown into the violence and civil war of his West African country.
- Uzodinma Iweala
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 ...
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties—a child soldier—in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation unfolds in an unnamed, civil-war-torn West African country, where the young Agu (Abraham Attah, in a haunting debut performance) witnesses carnage in his ...
Jan 1, 2005 · "Beasts of No Nation" ist sicher ein Meilenstein, was Kindersoldaten und Kriege in Afrika betrifft; die Erzählweise ist innovativ, aber irgendwann fand ich sie auch ausgelutscht. Das Ende empfand ich als Antiklimax. Deshalb nur 2 Sterne.
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- Uzodinma Iweala
Jan 29, 2016 · Forced to choose between death and joining an army of rebel child soldiers led by a psychotic commandant. He picks the latter, a choice that will forever haunt him. He and the other child soldiers ...
Uzodinma Iweala. John Murray, 2006 - Africa - 180 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, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the ...
