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    Beasts of No Nation
    Beasts of No Nation
    Beasts of No Nation
    Audiobook4 hours

    Beasts of No Nation

    Written by Uzodinma Iweala

    Narrated by Simon Manyonda

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Now a critically-acclaimed Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and starring Idris Elba (Mandela, The Wire)—the movie-tie in edition of the harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country.

    As civil war ravages an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning debut novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. 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 continues to spin further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu’s new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary new writer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 13, 2015
    ISBN9780062456069
    Beasts of No Nation
    Author

    Uzodinma Iweala

    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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      Uzodinma owns an eye for subtle nuances in the telling of this story. The style of writing and dialogue starts by throwing the reader off guard and then leaves you inspired by its congruence and richness and it's semblance of some historical accuracy; even though this may erroneously come across to be outside the author's wheelhouse. The plot is thick and holds you spellbound till the final stroke of prodigy.