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Beasts of No Nation

Iweala is a Nigerian born in the United States. This is his first novel and tells a devastating story of life, death and war.

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  • "Beasts of no nation"@it

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  • "Iweala is a Nigerian born in the United States. This is his first novel and tells a devastating story of life, death and war."@en
  • "Agu est un enfant-soldat africain, un tueur. Il obéit au Commandant, qui a sur lui droit de vie et de mort. Viols, exécutions, massacres : c'est la guerre civile. Agu voudrait s'éveiller de ce cauchemar. Alors, il parle."
  • "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, 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. In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu's youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, deeply affecting novel. Both a searing take on coming-of-age and a vivid document of the dark face of war, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extaordinary new writer."@en
  • "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, 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. In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu's youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, deeply affecting novel. Both a searing take on coming-of-age and a vivid document of the dark face of war, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary new writer."@en
  • "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, 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. In a powerful, strikingly original voice that vividly captures Agu's youth and confusion, Uzodinma Iweala has produced a harrowing, deeply affecting novel. Both a searing take on coming-of-age and a vivid document of the dark face of war, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary new writer."
  • "Alors que la guerre civile fait rage dans une contrée africaine sans nom, Agu tente par tous les moyens de fuir son village. La violence le rattrape pourtant et il est enrôlé comme enfant soldat. Sous les ordres du commandant, il est contraint de voler, violer et tuer. Pour sauver sa propre vie, il devient une bête féroce."
  • "Een Afrikaanse jongen van ca. tien jaar wordt gedwongen kindsoldaat te worden nadat rebellen zijn vader hebben doodgeschoten."
  • "Als der Krieg beginnt, befiehlt der Vater Agus zu den Rebellen zu laufen. Er wird Kindersoldat und erlernt langsam das Handwerk: plündern, schänden, töten. Er fühlt sich frei und wild. Nur manchmal kommen Bilder aus seinem vergangenen Leben hoch und er bekommt Angst, weil er weiss, dass er erst dann nicht mehr kämpfen muss, wenn er tot ist."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Récits de guerre"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Cuentos de guerra"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Novela estadounidense"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Beasts Of No Nation"
  • "Du sollst Bestie sein!"
  • "Beasts of No Nation"@en
  • "In de huid van het beest"
  • "Bêtes sans patrie"
  • "Bestie senza una patria"@it
  • "Bestie senza una patria"
  • "Beasts of no nation a novel"
  • "Beasts of no nation a novel"@en
  • "Beasts of no nation"
  • "Beasts of no nation"@en
  • "Feras de lugar nenhum"@pt
  • "Bestias sin patria"
  • "Bestias sin patria"@es
  • "Du sollst Bestie sein !"
  • "Beasts of no nation : a novel"@en
  • "Beasts of no nation : a novel"
  • "Bèsties sense pàtria"
  • "Bèsties sense pàtria"@ca
  • "Bestie znikąd"@pl

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