num_pages: 239
description: On the day that Obinnas village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered he witnesses violence beyond his imagination. Along with his older brother he finds himself thrown into a truck when the soldiers leave to be shaped into an agent of horror  a child soldier. Marched through minefields and forced into battle enduring a brutal daily existence Obinna slowly works out which parts of himself to save and which to sacrifice in this world turned upside down. Beneath the Darkening Sky is a terrifyingly powerful brilliantly insightful portrait of how a human being copes when forced to become inhuman. Like all great fiction it imagines the unimaginable and announces the arrival of a searing new voice from the heart of Africa.
language: English
title: Beneath the Darkening Sky
publisher: Penguin Books Australia