# Burma Boy

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/biyi-bandele/burma-boy

![Burma Boy](https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage/biyi-bandele/burma-boy_978-00-9948-898-9.jpg?v=2026-04-22%2009%3A37%3A32)

- Authors: [Biyi Bandele](https://www.bookquiver.com/biyi-bandele)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-06-05

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Burma Boy

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9948-898-9
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2008-06-05
- Language: en_GB