<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 2005 </Td> </Tr> <P> Beasts of No Nation is a 2005 novel by the Nigerian - American author Uzodinma Iweala, that takes its title from Fela Kuti's 1989 album with the same name . The book was adapted as a film in 2015 . </P> <P> The novel follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in an unnamed West African country . While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first conflicted by simultaneous revulsion by and fascination with the mechanics of war . Iweala does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier . The book does not give any direct clue as to which country it takes place in, and it remains undisclosed . The book is notable for its confrontational, immersive first - person narrative . </P> <P> The novel is about a West African boy named Agu who is forced to become a child soldier . When war came to his family's small village, Agu's mother and sister are able to leave with the UN peacekeepers, but Agu is ordered to stay behind and fight with his father and the other men of the village . When soldiers attack the village the men realize that whether they hide or not they will eventually be killed . They mount an attack but Agu runs away at his father's wishes . </P>

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