false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg 413177 16 <p> 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&#8212a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact. </p> <p> 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. </p> 1655801 2005 Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (P.S.) total:937|5:167|4:365|3:323|2:59|1:23| 937 3405 1370 204 411478 006079867X 9780060798673 146 34 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174515164m/411478.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411478.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 3 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 14:22:27 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 14:33:57 -0700 2007
1.) What is with the bullshit deus ex machina ending? I admit I did wish that th...more...]]> 411478 006079867X 9780060798673 146 34 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174515164m/411478.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411478.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 2 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 08:31:02 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 08:38:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 411478 006079867X 9780060798673 146 34 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174515164m/411478.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411478.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 0 0 false Wed May 13 14:42:25 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:42:25 -0700 2009 Beasts of No Nation. While I'm still not ready to join the adulation forces, the book is undoubtedly a worthwhile read.[return][return]Beast...more...]]> 411478 006079867X 9780060798673 146 34 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174515164m/411478.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411478.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:38:16 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:38:16 -0800 2009 Iweala, 23, a first-time novelist, does not know violence firsthand. But as an undergraduate at Harvard, he traveled to Nigeria, conducted research, and turned his senior thesis (directed by Jamaica Kincaid) into a novel. The topic couldn't be timelier: an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 child soldiers...

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Told from the perspective of Agu...more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Mar 24 17:45:58 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 08:30:52 -0700 2009 Uzodinma Iweala
142pp.
ISBN: 0-06-079868-8

Survival pushes you to make decisions that are not really the best decisions, when your country has given up on you or given up on their self. In Beasts of No Nation a civil war engulf a West African nation...more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 5 0 false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:07:53 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:11:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 15:42:37 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 15:42:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Feb 24 09:25:22 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 09:40:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 4 0 true Sun Aug 09 07:07:02 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 11:14:33 -0700 2009
This was a good book, and while short, was very difficult to get through. There were two reasons for this. The first was the subject matter. It is about child soldiers in a civil war in Africa. The violence is highly realistic a...more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Oct 14 16:54:30 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 19:54:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 4 0 false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 17:53:17 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:00:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 04 14:20:36 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 14:20:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 3 0 false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 20:16:42 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 10:03:12 -0800 2009
I had an incredibly hard time getting t...more...]]> 413177 0060798688 9780060798680 743 160 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174520531m/413177.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413177.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Jan 13 09:24:17 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 09:30:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 411478 006079867X 9780060798673 146 34 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174515164m/411478.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411478.Beasts_of_No_Nation_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Nov 10 03:21:33 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 23 16:17:48 -0700 2009 “This is one of those rare occasion when you see a first novel and you think, This guy is going to be very, very good.”

And indeed this novel is so special in so many ways. It is the coming...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=413177