Beasts of no nation : a novel / Uzodinma Iweala.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 142 p. ; 19 cmISBN:- 006079867X
- 0719567521 (hbk.)
- F/IWE 22
- PS3609.W43 B43 2005
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | The Mico University College Fiction | Fiction | F/IWE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 66702 |
"In this 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 dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander." "While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started - a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality spins further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. His relationship with his commander deepens even as it darkens, and his camaraderie with a fellow soldier lends a deceptive sense of normalcy to his experience."--BOOK JACKET.
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