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01843aam a2200313Mi 4500 001 7F669C34387D11EC850BB56740ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211029010013 008 210313t20212005nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780063139039 020 $a 0063139030 035 $a (OCoLC)1241443098 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d TAP $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a fw----- 050 4 $a PS3609.W43 $b B43 2021 082 04 $a 823/.92 $2 22 100 1 $a Iweala, Uzodinma. 245 10 $a Beasts of no nation : $b a novel / $c Uzodinma Iweala. 250 $a First Harper Perennial olive edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Perennial Olive Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2021. 300 $a 146 pages ; $c 18 cm 520 $a Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started -- a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality spins further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. His relationship with his commander deepens even as it darkens, and his camaraderie with a fellow soldier lends a deceptive sense of normalcy to his experience. 650 0 $a Child soldiers $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Africa, West $v Fiction. 655 7 $a War fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20211029010411.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F669C34387D11EC850BB56740ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search