{"product_id":"beasts-of-no-nation-9781473625556","title":"Beasts of No Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOfficial tie-in to the Netflix Original Film featuring Idris Elba (\u003ci\u003eThor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrometheus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMandela: Long Walk to Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (\u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to fight the rebels. ''Run!'' shouts his father when the rebels arrive. And Agu does run. Straight into the rebels'' path. In a vivid, sparkling voice, Agu tells the story of what happens to him next; his life as a child-soldier. His story is shocking and painful, and completely unforgettable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an extraordinary portrait of the chaos and violence of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a sneak peak of the Netflix Original Film of \u003ci\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, have a look at the trailer: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oRsaclO0VbU\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent * Amitav Ghosh *\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary . . . you don't come across writing like this very often * Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003eSo 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003cb\u003eTo call the book staggering would be an understatement\u003c\/b\u003e * Waterstones Books Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary book\u003c\/b\u003e . . . horrifying expose . . . vivid . . . . It casts a powerful, if gruesome spell * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIweala 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 *\u003cbr\u003eGives a name, a voice and a heart to one of Africa's innumerable child soldiers . . . This is urgent writing, starkly unsentimental and convincing * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eCompelling . . . perturbing, painful and powerful * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eStream-like sentences that convey irrestible, rushing activitiy . . . Iweala's powerful debut recalls Saro-Wiwa's first-person masterpiece of a soldier-boy * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA simple and brutal account of war . . . \u003ci\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a raw, compelling first novel * Literary Review *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739515269463,"sku":"9781473625556","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473625556.jpg?v=1720052456","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beasts-of-no-nation-9781473625556","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}