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Song for Night
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Song for Night Paperback - 2007

by Chris Abani

This harrowing novel by Nigerian poet and award-winning novelist Abani tells the story of a West African boy soldiers lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon.


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  • Title Song for Night
  • Author Chris Abani
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 170
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Akashic Books, Ltd., New York
  • Date September 2007
  • ISBN 9781933354316 / 1933354313
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007926049
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2007, Page 39
  • Multicultural Review, 03/01/2008, Page 45
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/16/2007, Page 14
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/25/2007, Page 29
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/01/0001, Page 0

About the author

Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).
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