An extraordinarily powerful and affecting novel of Africa's child-soldiers, by French Africa's pre-eminent novelist. In the tradition of CITY OF GOD.
Ahmadou Kourouma was born in the Ivory Coast in 1927. Hailed as one of the leading African writers in French, he died in 2003.
A work of luminous humanity
*Financial Times*
it is a powerful, shocking and deeply moving novel, an African Lord
of the Flies...Through Kourouma's skilful telling, the characters
live on the page
*Guardian*
An exceptional storyteller
*Independent*
Allah is Not Obliged... deftly captures the mixture of horror,
fascination and detachment with which a child views the world of
grown-up folly
*The Economist*
Melding fiction and fact with the humility of childhood, Ahmadou
Kourouma deftly exposes the desperate nature of the civil wars -
and the relentless poverty - that have ravaged Africa, and brings
the grandeur of gestures such as the G8 pledges into uncomfortably
sharp relief
*New Statesman*
A work of luminous humanity -- Michael Thompson-Noel * Financial
Times *
it is a powerful, shocking and deeply moving novel, an African
Lord of the Flies...Through Kourouma's skilful telling, the
characters live on the page -- Aminatta Forna * Guardian *
An exceptional storyteller * Independent *
Allah is Not Obliged... deftly captures the mixture of
horror, fascination and detachment with which a child views the
world of grown-up folly * The Economist *
Melding fiction and fact with the humility of childhood, Ahmadou
Kourouma deftly exposes the desperate nature of the civil wars -
and the relentless poverty - that have ravaged Africa, and brings
the grandeur of gestures such as the G8 pledges into uncomfortably
sharp relief -- Sarak Birke * New Statesman *
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