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Book SynopsisAward-winning writer and doctor Uzo Iweala travels a continent getting to know the people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDs.
Trade Review'A sobering, ultimately optimistic exploration of a crisis amplified by poverty and misinformation' * Independent on Sunday *
'Searingly honest, you'll find it hard not to be touched by the award-winning novelist and doctor Uzodinma Iweala's account of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa' * Pride Magazine *
'In this unassuming but important book, Uzodinma Iweala gives the AIDS pandemic not just a human face but a human voice' * Times Literary Supplement *
This is a work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent * Amitav Ghosh on BEASTS *
'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.' * Ali Smith, Guardian, on BEASTS *
'This is an extraordinary book ... horrifying expose ... vivid ... It casts a powerful, if gruesome spell' * Sunday Telegraph, on BEASTS *
'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 on BEASTS *
'This sad, unforgettable novel is a fitting testament to the countless Agus who continue to kill and be killed across that most tragic of continents.' * Daily Telegraph on BEASTS *
'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 on BEASTS *
'A searing first novel' * Independent on BEASTS *
'Beasts of No Nation is written with the authority of someone who knows what they're talking about' * London Review of Books on BEASTS *
'A simple and brutal account of war ... Beasts of No Nation is a raw, compelling first novel' * Literary Review on BEASTS *
