Beasts of No Nation: A Novel Uzodinma Iweala
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This novel may seem small in size, however, its content is quite powerful. Reading Les Think of Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé, think of Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny, Chien Méchant, and, less successfully, Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation in recent times as takes on the warlordism and child soldiering. It's not the easiest book to love, but I think it's an important book and is truly spectacular if you get into it. Seconding the Beasts of No Nation rec! Why did you want to write this book? I had previously read his debut novel, Bleu Blanc Rouge (1998), a bravura work for sure (and more on that anon) and had already placed him in the vanguard of modern African literature. RB: Let's talk about Beasts of No Nation. Posted on July 2, 2012 at 10:47 am. She's quite a sharp little thing, but her ragged use of high vocabulary is fiercely true to life, and the novel's ramifying plot takes into account the dark edge of smarts; like any tool, they may be used for bad as well as good. It says the two-year conflict has affected all aspects of their lives. On Sunday, a compelling op-ed by Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation, appeared in the Washington Post. I'm reading beasts of no nation right now and it is verrrrrrrrry unique. And get the paperbackit's a much more awesome object. Since it has a bearing on my review of Chinua Achebe's 1960 follow up novel to his monumental first work, Things Fall Apart, I will confess here that my first reaction to reading Thing's Fall Apart was a shrug of my mind's shoulders…It struck me His clan's forbearance with him is tested (its important to remember the blood ties here, he is under obligations to meet their expectations as their bright hope), at one point they call him a “Beast O no nation'…. Child narrators have always Agu, the nine- or ten-year-old narrator of Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation, from 2005, endures the corrosive traumatic life of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country.