Burma Boy: by Biyi Bandele-Thomas
Price: N7500
Product Code: 1340030831
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Number of Pages: 224
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISSN: 9780099488989
Availability: To be delivered within 6 to 22 working days
Summary: 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 orders to go behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. But the Burmese jungle is a mud-riven, treacherous place, riddled with Japanese snipers, insanity and disease. "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 also the moving story of a boy trying to live long enough to become a man.