In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country.
“Iweala, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate, has written a novel about the perversity of war, and the fragility of humanity. It’s all the more shattering viewed through the eyes of a schoolboy who is both terrified and seduced by the meaningless slaughter which first claims his father, then his own childhood.” –The Boston Globe
