There is so much emotion and so many important themes packed into SPEAK NO EVIL, it's impossible to properly cover everything Uzodinma Iweala touches upon. Any one of the themes could be a full novel, so when we leap into this book, it's a bit like leaping into a boiling pot of water. That felt unco...
Horrible. Not the book, but the situation of child soldiers, of any soldiers. God bless their lifes and souls.
I gave my review a serious titivation and posted it to my blog...but if you've never read this book, go straight to the bookstore and buy it. http://tinyurl.com/kncknpy Stories like this are too true to tell in non-fiction. Stories like this are too hard to read when they're merely factual. But ...
The challenge with writing a medical ethnography is providing the right balance of statistical information and anecdotes/interviews that help put a face on the subject disease. Nigerian physician Uzodinma Iweala does just that with this book."Our Kind of People" examines the sub-Saharan Africa HIV/...
Men writing in the voice of a child are at a disadvantage because childhood is traditionally thought of as a woman's preserve. Iweala writes about a boy who is only nominally a child, though; one of the thousands of boys who are compelled to serve in the civil wars and rebellions of Africa's trouble...
Beasts of No Nation encapsulates, in narrator Agu’s voice, the mixture of formative development at the mercy of war with the already muddled journey to adulthood that has a boy comparing, still, all the women he meets to his mother. Unapologetically graphic, and clearly sympathetic, Iweala’s book i...
got this for free at the mla a few years back, never read it. want it?
This book is destined to be regarded as a classic. Village life in this unnamed West African country is disrupted when news comes of war. People who can, flee. Some remain, men willing to fight mostly. Unfortunately this includes young boys who are strong enough to hold a weapon. Our narrator is one...
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