The King’s Rifle by Biyi Bandele
By Beverly Jackson • May 6th, 2009 • Category: Book Review 2009It’s winter 1944 and the second World War is entering its most crucial state. A few months ago Ali Banana was a blacksmith-s apprentice in his rural hometown in West Africa; now he-s behind enemy lines, trekking through the Burmese jungle. He is fourteen years old.



