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Lädt ... Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (Original 2005; 2007. Auflage)von Uzodinma Iweala
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HTML: "Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence." â??Entertainment Weekly (A) The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. 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 startedâ??a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family, still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality continues to spin further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu's new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary writer Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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To start with, it is way too mawkish and exploitative in its approach. The idea of child rebel soldiers already provides a great deal of empathy. But the childlike writing (with broken English and simplistic analogies) made me want to shy away--like it was patting me on the back in a patronizing approach. It's also a difficult sit, with the explanations of warfare and other graphic details.
The film, however, is much better at approaching something that should be the emotional core of the story: how this young man starts as a normal boy, is corrupted, and whether or not he'll be able to return.
The book doesn't do that (it starts with him already in war). And with that loss of an arc, you're really just reading Oliver Twist in The Red Badge of Courage (Africa edition). It's admirable, but just falls short. And I worry that some of it has to do with the fact that the author didn't live these experiences and is such trying to tell the story in an inauthentic way. And that's rather unfortunate as this is a topic that should be addressed in a remarkable way. But this book isn't it. (