Beasts of No Nation - Couverture rigide

Iweala, Uzodinma

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719567521 ISBN 13 : 9780719567520

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Physical description; 180 p. ; 20 cm.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

A work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent (Amitav Ghosh)

Extraordinary . . . you don't come across writing like this very often (Bookseller)

So scorched by loss and anger that it's hard to hold and so gripping in its sheer hopeless lifeforce that it's hard to put down (Guardian)

A harrowing and compelling vision . . . the narrator's voice is so authentic you have to check you are still reading fiction . . . This is a novel which leaves an impression like a blood-soaked hand print, disturbing not only for the terror around this cleaving, pulverising slayer, but the terror turning to 'ennui' within him. To call it shocking would be to do it a disservice. To call the writing beautiful would hardly be praise. To call the book staggering would be an understatement (Waterstones Books Quarterly)

The power of his material and its hideous relevance rolls all before it . . . This book about children that is in no sense a children's book deserves to be read (Independent)

An extraordinary book . . . horrifying expose . . . vivid . . . . It casts a powerful, if gruesome spell (Sunday Telegraph)

Iweala makes a compelling story from experience which in its nature defies articulation . . . Uzodinma Iweala's is a confident and promising new voice (Times Literary Supplement)

Gives a name, a voice and a heart to one of Africa's innumerable child soldiers . . . This is urgent writing, starkly unsentimental and convincing (Observer)

Compelling . . . perturbing, painful and powerful (Irish Independent)

Stream-like sentences that convey irrestible, rushing activitiy . . . Iweala's powerful debut recalls Saro-Wiwa's first-person masterpiece of a soldier-boy (The Times)

Quatrième de couverture

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0719567521
• ISBN 13: 9780719567520
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192