is based on the Uzodinma Iweala’s Novel of the same title.
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 torn between conflicting revulsion 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.
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