Overview

HIV/AIDS has profoundly affected life in sub-Saharan Africa. It has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted. But the emphasis on death, despair and destruction hardly captures the many and varied impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Award-winning novelist and doctor Uzodinma Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey in Nigeria meeting individuals and communities that are struggling daily to understand both the impact and meaning of the disease. He speaks with people from all walks of life, those living with HIV/AIDS and those who aren't, doctors, nurses, truck drivers, sex workers, shopkeepers, students, parents and children who are all trying to make sense of life, love, and our connections to each other as people in the face of an unprecedented epidemic. Beautifully written and heart-breakingly honest, Our Kind of People goes behind the headlines of this epidemic to show the real lives affected by it, illuminating the scope of the crisis and a continent's valiant struggle.

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' 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

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Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian born in the United States. He is currently living in New York City. He is the author of the novel, BEASTS OF NO NATION, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

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