'A sobering, ultimately optimistic exploration of a crisis amplified by poverty and misinformation' -- Independent on Sunday 'Searingly honest, you'll find it hard not to be touched by the award-winning novelist and doctor Uzodinma Iweala's account of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa' -- Pride Magazine 'In this unassuming but important book, Uzodinma Iweala gives the AIDS pandemic not just a human face but a human voice' -- Times Literary Supplement 20121012 ' This is a work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent' -- Amitav Ghosh on BEASTS 20050401 'So scorched by loss and anger that it's hard to hold and so gripping in its sheer hopeless lifeforce that it's hard to put down.' -- Ali Smith, Guardian, on BEASTS 20050903 'This is an extraordinary book ... horrifying expose ... vivid ... It casts a powerful, if gruesome spell' -- Sunday Telegraph, on BEASTS 20050918 'Gives a name, a voice and a heart to one of Africa's innumerable child soldiers ... This is urgent writing, starkly unsentimental and convincing' -- Observer on BEASTS 20050828 'This sad, unforgettable novel is a fitting testament to the countless Agus who continue to kill and be killed across that most tragic of continents.' -- Daily Telegraph on BEASTS 20060610 'Stream-like sentences that convey irrestible, rushing activitiy ... Iweala's powerful debut recalls Saro-Wiwa's first-person masterpiece of a soldier-boy' -- The Times on BEASTS 20060610 'A searing first novel' -- Independent on BEASTS 20060610 'Beasts of No Nation is written with the authority of someone who knows what they're talking about' -- London Review of Books on BEASTS 20051006 'A simple and brutal account of war ... Beasts of No Nation is a raw, compelling first novel' -- Literary Review on BEASTS 20050901