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Chris Abani, Song For Night. I was very impressed and quite moved by Chris Abani's Song For Night, a powerful and often harrowing novella of war and remembrance. The story is told through the inner voice of My Luck, a 15-year-old boy soldier in an ethnic civil war in Nigeria, Abani's native country. My Luck has the unenviable role of leader of a platoon of landmine diffusers - small, nimble.
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Esquire 'Chris Abani is a writer of mesmerizing powers, embracing warmth, and transcendent compassion.' Donna Seaman in BookLust 'The genius of Abani's work derives from his intellectual engagement with our world and his unflinching depictions, in the most mesmerizing language imaginable, of its most insidious horrors and its richest beauties. Song for Night demonstrates, yet again, why Abani.
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Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother, he grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria, received a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria, an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.
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Chris Albani, a Nigerian novelist and poet living in political exile here in the US, is the author of the novels Master of the Board, The Virgin of Flames, and Gracelend, which won the 2005 PEN Hemingway Prize.He has also written several poetry collections and the novellas Song for Night and Becoming Abigail, a poets novella in its dream-like juxtapositions and stepladder flow.
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Song for Night by Chris Abani It’s an archetypal war story. A soldier regains consciousness on the battlefield. All is silent and still.
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Song For Night Book Summary and Study Guide. Chris Abani Booklist Chris Abani Message Board. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Song For Night; A young man searches for his platoon across a war-torn area of Nigeria The story begins with the child soldier My Luck waking from a mine blast that has killed one of his best friends in his platoon. Thinking that he was dead, the rest of his platoon.
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Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother, he grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria, received a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria, an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.
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Chris Abani is the author of There Are No Names for Red (Red Hen Press, 2010), illustrated by Percival Everett, and Sanctificum (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).Born in Nigeria, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Board of Trustees Professor of English and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University.
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Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was born in Nigeria, and currently resides in the United States. His fiction includes The Secret History of Las Vegas (Penguin 2014), Song For Night (Akashic, 2007), The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007.
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TY - BOOK. T1 - Song for Night. AU - Abani, Chris. PY - 2007. Y1 - 2007. M3 - Book. BT - Song for Night. PB - Akashic Books. CY - New York. ER -.
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New York Times 'Song for Night is a devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away.' Los Angeles Times 'If you want to get at the molten heart of contemporary fiction, Abani is the starting point.'.
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Novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright Chris Abani grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria. Abani earned a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria; an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London; and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He is the author of the poetry collections Sanctificum (2010.
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