'A daring blend of horror and beauty'
The Observer

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‘Chris Abani writes like an angel. If you want to get at the molten heart of contemporary fiction, Abani is the starting point.’
Dave Eggers

‘Song for Night contains, at once, an extraordinary ferocity and a vulnerable beauty all its own.’
New York Times

‘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

‘An impressive and fast-paced barrage of description and observation of war narrated with such dry and lucid precision that it brings to mind Babel, Hemingway, McCarthy.’
Esquire

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