Burma Boy, Paperback/Biyi Bandele

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. Publisher: Vintage Publishing Author(s): Biyi Bandele Number of pages: 224 Publication date: 2008 Dimensions: 199 x 146 x 15 Cover type: Paperback / softback