Uzodinma Iweala
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Beasts of No Nation
(Harper Collins)
Forcing himself to inhabit the terrifying heart of amorality and violence, Uzodinma Iweala has created the first-person voice of a child-soldier. Here, he speaks of how, with inspiration from Rimbaud and Fela Kuti, and guidance from Jamaica Kincaid, he arrived at the disturbing poetry of this powerful first novel.
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