Beasts of No Nation

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• The lost boys

  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 story of a Sierra Leone family blasted apart by one of ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Beasts of No Nation By Uzodinma Iweala

  Only 23 years old, Iweala writes with incredible authority about civil war and political upheaval as they sweep across a fictional nation in West Africa. Agu, the narrator of this debut novel, is a young boy when his father is murdered by guerillas, ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  I think this book is overrated but it's still a good one. I guess I expected too much from a "so many book of the year awards" book. This is the hard and brutal story of a child soldier in some African country. If you thought "The Road" was hard, wait 'til you read this one...

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• English Books
• Paperback 192 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 071956753X
• ISBN-13: 9780719567537
• Publisher: John Murray
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2006
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others
• In other languages: other languages Suomenkielisiä kirjoja

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