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...called Iweala “a confident and promising new voice” and the San Francisco Chronicle lauded “Beasts” as a “stark, vivid book.” While Krinsky writes about naked parties and men who shave their pubic hair, Iweala??s novel tackles where war and cruelty intersect and the way that people can be corrupted by circumstances. Enough said. Of course Harvard and Yale have produced comparably great novelists, the same way we have comparably lackluster football teams. But for the sake of school spirit...
...venturing to Columbia’s medical school next year. But he has no plans to stop writing. “My next book is non-fiction, about HIV/AIDS, so I need to mature as a writer before I tackle something more difficult,” he said. Iweala??s first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” is the fictional story of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country. After receiving nearly 200 submissions from publishers and agents around the country, six judges in the Granta magazine office narrowed the list...
...figures that were an immense influence on his writing career. Cohen even helped the aspiring writer to publish his novel by finding an agent for him and continues to be a mentor. “A young novelist needs a support network of writers,” Kalam says. Iweala??s senior thesis also had an unexpectedly deep impact on his life. His thesis, a novel entitled “Beasts of No Nation,” was written from the perspective of a child soldier in Africa. Under the guidance of Kincaid, Iweala won several...
...question and answer session after the reading, he paused to chuckle at himself. In response to his acclaim, Iweala told The Crimson yesterday, “The best thing is that you know people are interested in what you have to say.” One of Iweala??s most important inspirations for the novel was China Keitetsi, a child soldier from Uganda who addressed the Harvard African Students Association during Iweala??s junior year, he said. He tried to work on the story in Nigeria the following summer, but he said he found that...
...soldier and soldier is not bad if he is killing,” Agu says, in an attempt to placate his overwhelming feelings of culpability. For the majority of the novel, readers are carried by this efficient and original style. Sometimes, though, Iweala??s narrative insights seem too mature for the young Agu.At one point, Agu states “All we are knowing is that, before the war we are children and now we not.” It is a true and heartbreaking philosophical sentiment, but not necessarily the first one to come to a child...