Beasts of No Nation - Softcover

"[Beasts of No Nation] is a work of visceral urgency...it heralds the arrival of a major talent."--Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace

"Uzodinma Iweala is a gifted and brave writer."--Chris Abani, author of GraceLand

"An astonishing debut."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A harrowing account of the intoxication of violence...that offers no easy answers or explanations."--Library Journal

"This is an extraordinary book. . . . It's so vivid [and] powerful."--Sunday Telegraph

"A raw, compelling first novel."--Literary Review

"A powerful debut."--The Times of London

"A brilliant debut. . . . This is a remarkable novel that suggests a dazzling literary future."--People (****)

"Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice."--Entertainment Weekly (A)

"A startling debut.... Iweala's acute imagining allows him to depict the war as a mesh of bestial pleasures and pain."--The New Yorker