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Beasts of No Nation
By Uzodinma Iweala
HarperCollins, 142 pages, $16.95
A young recruit in a guerrilla unit in an unnamed west African nation caught in a horrible civil war narrates this intense debut novel. The fatherless boy comes of age in this little novel that adds a new level of understanding to tragic newspaper stories coming out of Africa today.
