Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation
Iweala--a Harvard grad who's like 24 or something--writes a powerful and troubling first novel about a young boy who's swept up into a guerilla army during some war in some unnamed African country. However, I'm taking points off for the writing style, which is faux-"I'm just learning English and can't get my tenses quite right". B+.
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