Burma Boy
Book by Biyi Bandele
A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. Now its winter 1944, the war is entering its most crucial stage and Ali is a private in Thunder Brigade. His unit has been given... Google Books
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This coming-of-age novel of a Nigerian soldier, humorously named Ali Banana, in the Burma campaign during World War II is simply marvelous ... enchanting ...
This is a fictionalised account of black African soldiers fighting in Burma. Fourteen year old Ali Banana lies about his age to join the British army and be ...
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This coming-of-age novel of a Nigerian soldier, humorously named Ali Banana, in the Burma campaign during World War II is simply marvelous ... enchanting ...
Biyi Bandele's novel is a meticulously researched, elegantly written tribute to the Africans who fought in the Second World War - detailing the madness, the ...
So he goes to Burma with all the other soldiers. It's about his experiences in the war, in the barracks in Burma, and his comrades and people from different ...
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Burma Boy. By Biyi Bandele. Books / Paperback. Juvenile & Young Adult › Juvenile & YA Fiction. Publisher: Farafina, January 2007. Price $21.95. Free ...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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ISBN: 9780224076821 - Hardcover - Jonathan Cape - 2007 - Condition: new - New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed - Burma Boy.
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Burma Boy is a horrific, vividly realised account of the madness, the sacrifice and the dark humour of the Second World War's most vicious battleground. It's ...
Jun 1, 2007 · Giles Foden discovers a brilliant Nigerian comic hero fighting for the British in Burma in Biyi Bandele's Burma Boy.