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Beasts of No Nation
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Uzodinma Iweala is an important new voice in African fiction. Set in an unnamed West African state riven by civil war, Beasts of No Nation is the powerful debut novel from this prizewinning Harvard graduate and Mellon Mays Scholar. Young Agu is asleep in a one-room shack when he hears them breaking through the door. Dragged into the muddy, rain-soaked road, he lies prone before a shabby band of guerilla soldiers. Their leader, the imposing Commandant, will decide Agu's fate.

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Street Date:
07/18/2006
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781449869038
Lexile measure:
1140
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APA Citation (style guide)

Uzodinma Iweala. (2006). Beasts of No Nation. Unabridged Recorded Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Uzodinma Iweala. 2006. Beasts of No Nation. Recorded Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation. Recorded Books, 2006.

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Uzodinma Iweala. Beasts of No Nation. Unabridged Recorded Books, 2006.

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        Iweala's visceral debut is unrelenting in its brutality and unremitting in its intensity. Agu, the precocious, gentle son of a village schoolteacher father and a Bible-reading mother, is dragooned into an unnamed West African nation's mad civil war—a slip of a boy forced, almost overnight, to shoulder a soldier's bloody burden. The preteen protagonist is molded into a fighting man by his demented guerrilla leader and, after witnessing his father's savage slaying, by an inchoate need to belong to some kind of family, no matter how depraved. He becomes a killer, gripped by a muddled sense of revenge as he butchers a mother and daughter when his ragtag unit raids a defenseless village; starved for both food and affection, he is sodomized by his commandant and rewarded with extra food scraps and a dry place to sleep. The subject of the 23-year-old novelist's story—Iweala is American born of Nigerian descent—is gripping enough. But even more stunning is the extraordinarily original voice with which this tale is told. The impressionistic narration by a boy constantly struggling to understand the incomprehensible is always breathless, often breathtaking and sometimes heartbreaking. Its odd singsong cadence and twisted use of tense take a few pages to get used to, but Iweala's electrifying prose soon enough propels a harrowing read.

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