Beasts of No Nation: A Novel - Brossura

Iweala, Uzodinma

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ISBN 10: 0062420119 ISBN 13: 9780062420114

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2015

Riassunto

This movie-tie in edition of the acclaimed debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala tells the unforgettable story of the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country.

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 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.

In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu’s youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, inventive, and deeply affecting novel. 

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Recensione:

“[Beasts of No Nation] is a work of visceral urgency...it heralds the arrival of a major talent.” (Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace)

“Uzodinma Iweala is a gifted and brave writer.” (Chris Abani, author of GraceLand)

“An astonishing debut.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

“A harrowing account of the intoxication of violence...that offers no easy answers or explanations.” (Library Journal)

“This is an extraordinary book. . . . It’s so vivid [and] powerful.” (Sunday Telegraph)

“A raw, compelling first novel.” (Literary Review)

“A powerful debut.” (The Times of London)

“A brilliant debut. . . . This is a remarkable novel that suggests a dazzling literary future.” (People (****))

“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice.” (Entertainment Weekly (A))

“A startling debut.... Iweala’s acute imagining allows him to depict the war as a mesh of bestial pleasures and pain.” (The New Yorker)

L'autore:

Uzodinma Iweala received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, all for Beasts of No Nation. He was also selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he lives in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062420119
• ISBN 13: 9780062420114
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 142