Beasts of No Nation

A work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent - Amitav Ghosh

So scorched by loss and anger that it’s hard to hold and so gripping in its sheer hopeless lifeforce that it’s hard to put down - Guardian

Extraordinary … you don’t come across writing like this very often - Bookseller

A simple and brutal account of war … Beasts of No Nation is a raw, compelling first novel - Literary Review

Iweala makes a compelling story from experience which in its nature defies articulation … Uzodinma Iweala’s is a confident and promising new voice - Times Literary Supplement

The power of his material and its hideous relevance rolls all before it … This book about children that is in no sense a children’s book deserves to be read - Independent