BEASTS OF NO NATION

180pp., paperback, Reprint, John Murray Classics, London, (2005) 2025

ISBN: 9781399827140

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

New foreword by Katie Kitamura.

A harrowing debut novel about the life of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country torn apart by civil war.

“In Beasts of No Nation Uzodinma Iweala has crafted a voice that is equal to the demands of a blood-soaked reality. This is a work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent. Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace

"So scorched by loss and anger that its hard to hold and so gripping in its sheer hopeless lifeforce that its hard to put down ... Beasts of No Nation is totally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph." Guardian

“One of those rare occasions when you read  first novel and you think, this guy is going to be very, very good." Salman Rushdie

Uzodinma Iweala (b. 1982) is a Nigerian born in the United States. He is the author of two other books, the novel Speak no Evil and Our Kind of People, thoughts on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and the Paris Review. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he is a Fellow at the Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg.