Beasts Of No Nation Book Review

It is chilling to compare beasts of no nation a first novel by uzodinma iweala who is 23 and a harvard graduate and has worked with nigerian child soldiers in rehabilitation.

Beasts of no nation book review. While agu fears his commander and many of the men around him his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country and he is at first conf. While i m still not quite ready to join the adulation force but this book is undoubtedly a worthwhile read. People who can flee. While agu s account is fictitious.

That s the kind of press uzodinma iweala has been getting with his debut novel beasts of no nation. When agu s mother and sister are evacuated from their village agu remains with his father. It is brutal in its description of child soldiers forced to fight after being ripped away from their homes by rebels in a fictional african town. Our narrator is one.

Beasts of no nation. Beats of no nation is a book that feels like you have read it or seen it a number of times before. Beasts of no nation isn t the type of movie you enjoy but it is extremely effective in depicting one boy s harrowing journey into the heart of war. Some remain men willing to fight mostly.

Beasts of no nation tells the tale of agu a school age boy in an unnamed country in western africa that is in the throes of a civil war. Beasts of no nation is a 2005 novel by the nigerian american author uzodinma iweala that takes its title from fela kuti s 1989 album with the same name. Beast of no nation painted vivid shots of what life was like for these child soldiers so it can be a little hard to watch. Beats of no nation is a book that feels like you have read it or seen it a number of times before.

Unfortunately this includes young boys who are strong enough to hold a weapon. The novel follows the journey of a young boy agu who is forced to join a group of soldiers in an unnamed west african country. Beasts of no nation is destined to be regarded as a classic. Beasts of no nation finds writer director cary fukunaga working with a talented cast to offer a sobering uncompromising yet still somehow hopeful picture.

Beast of no nation is quite the untold story about such a huge political and inhumane problem within the african nation. It is brutal in its description of child soldiers forced to fight after being ripped away from their homes by rebels in a fictional african town. The filmmaking craft of beasts of no nation is vividly apparent and its emotional power is undeniable.