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Beasts of No Nation (Taschenbuch)

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Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
Verlag: John Murray Publishers; Auflage: New edition (5. Juni 2006)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 071956753X
ISBN-13: 978-0719567537
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,8 x 1,4 cm

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Starred Review. Iweala's visceral debut is unrelenting in its brutality and unremitting in its intensity. Agu, the precocious, gentle son of a village schoolteacher father and a Bible-reading mother, is dragooned into an unnamed West African nation's mad civil war—a slip of a boy forced, almost overnight, to shoulder a soldier's bloody burden. The preteen protagonist is molded into a fighting man by his demented guerrilla leader and, after witnessing his father's savage slaying, by an inchoate need to belong to some kind of family, no matter how depraved. He becomes a killer, gripped by a muddled sense of revenge as he butchers a mother and daughter when his ragtag unit raids a defenseless village; starved for both food and affection, he is sodomized by his commandant and rewarded with extra food scraps and a dry place to sleep. The subject of the 23-year-old novelist's story—Iweala is American born of Nigerian descent—is gripping enough. But even more stunning is the extraordinarily original voice with which this tale is told. The impressionistic narration by a boy constantly struggling to understand the incomprehensible is always breathless, often breathtaking and sometimes heartbreaking. Its odd singsong cadence and twisted use of tense take a few pages to get used to, but Iweala's electrifying prose soon enough propels a harrowing read. (Nov. 8)
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*Starred Review* "I am not bad boy. I am not bad boy. I am soldier and soldier is not bad if he is killing." Set in an unnamed West African country, Iweala's first novel shows civil war from a child's viewpoint. After his mother and sister escape and his father is killed, the traumatized young narrator is discovered by guerrilla fighters. Frightened and alone, he joins the men, becoming a soldier in an impoverished army of terror headed by a charismatic and treacherous leader who tells his young followers that killing "is like falling in love. You cannot be thinking about it." Writing in the boy's West African English, Iweala distills his story to the most urgent and visceral atrocities, and the scenes of bloodshed and rape are made more excruciating by the lyrical, rhythmic language. In the narrator's memories of village life, biblical stories, and creation myths, Iweala explores the mutable separation between human and beast and a child's struggle to rediscover his own humanity after war: "I am some sort of beast or devil," the boy says, "But I am also having mother once, and she is loving me." Readers will come away feeling shattered by this haunting, original story. Gillian Engberg
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2.0 von 5 Sternen A mediocre book on an interesting topic., 8. September 2009

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So far I have only read very positive reviews on this book, but I have to contradict.

I came across it because it was highly recommended by a lecturer of mine in conflict research, saying something like: "If you want to know about child soldiers, it's all in this book".
This is only partially true. The author mentions implicitly quite some facts that political scientists know about the 'average child soldier' (far away from giving a complete depiction). But much more than getting a clearer view on this topic, the actual accomplishment of the book is that the reader is able to look inside the main character, torn between his basic childhood moral and the pressure of his new lifestyle. Unfortunately this is not the main aspect; it is centered on the description of the everyday life of a child soldier.

It sure is shocking to read about the horrors of war in a very simple language, but on the whole I didn't like the style of the novel. The first-person narrator is talking like a European caricature of an 'African jungle kid', and he has a strange set of knowledge, I couldn't explain with his age or cultural background (unfortunately I cannot recall an example, but I was wondering from time to time about the things he knows and doesn`t know about the world). To me these flaws undermined the authenticity of the whole story. While reading, I always had the impression to share the thoughts of a western intellectual, instead of experiencing a story that actually could have happened.

I know I'm contradicting the world elite of book critics, but to me this was just a mediocre book on an interesting topic.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Very impressive, 21. M�rz 2008

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I ordered this book after having read an article in the German weekly paper "Die Zeit". It is hard to read as a pasttime and I am most intrigued by the author's capability of the language he uses, which seems so original.
The story seems to be an autobiography but is not. I am still not sure, if this makes it a better book or leaves the reader with the impression of having read just a novel. The story has moved me though and I think a lot about the boy and his pityful life.
I would recommend the book without doubt.

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The BEASTS OF NO NATION story reigns true in the countless civil wars that have ravaged Africa from the East (Somalia, Congo, Rwanda) to the South (Mozambique and Angola) the West (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria) and in Algeria and Sudan. It is mirrored in the light of the Palestinian. The underlying theme of teenage soldiers being used for a cause against their comprehension is a dehumanizing crime that should be met with the harshest of punishment against the perpetrators. Also seen in TRIPLE AGENT DOUBLE CROSS, THE BIAFRA STORY, DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE, SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL, we find that the scar of war leaves a haunting legacy in the lives of children, especially the children who killed .

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