- Published: 1 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780099433927
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $29.99
Allah Is Not Obliged
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- Published: 1 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780099433927
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $29.99
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
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
A work of luminous humanity
Michael Thompson-Noel, Financial Times
A compelling account of how closely linked innocence and brutality can be
London Review of Books
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