Allah Is Not Obliged
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299031654 (129903165X)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Anchor Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Religion,
France,
African Literature
As a rule I avoid books about war or calamity written from the perspective of child protagonists, in part because this viewpoint leads to oversimplification of complex events and in part because such books are almost always sentimental or precious. I chose this book, told from the perspective of a p...
This was an experience of a book to read. Our narrator Birahima, a child soldier, explains early on in his tale that "Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on Earth." Sometimes people die who should live, hurt when they should be happy, strive just to fail, and Allah do...
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