Burma Boy

A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali Banana was apprenticed to a whip-wielding blacksmith in his rural hometown. 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.

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.

• | Author: Biyi Bandele
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2008
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099488989
• | ISBN-10: 0099488981