Insight on the book: Beasts of no Nation is written as a narrative in Agu’s words. Agu is a child soldier in a war set in an undisclosed African location, but some of us will find it easy to guess the Author’s locale.

  The Nightingale is about survival in a world at war, a world where you trust no one, a world where loyalty is to self, a world where all you have is now because you don’t know what’s about to happen, a world