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Earlier this year granta published delia jarrettmacauleys first novel, moses. Idris elba nearly plunged to his death filming cary fukunagas beasts of no nation. The story evolves around agu, a young boy who is haunted by his fathers death, and thrown into the violence and civil war of his west african country. Beasts of no nation is a 2015 american war drama film written, coproduced and directed by cary joji fukunaga, who acted. Though it could be jokingly branded as a sombre slasher flick, beasts of no nation clearly exhibits none of the traditional continental hallmarks of horror in that its ghouls are a depressingly mortal and b devoid of. Im always cautious when a young writer is proclaimed as the next great thing.
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