Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A gripping story of a child who journeyed through hell and back.
In A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story: At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal.
- ISBN: 9780143190172
- Author: Ishmael Beah
- Pages: 240
- Ages: 12+, Adult
2 in stock
Description
New York City, 1998
My high school friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
Why did you leave Sierra Leone?
Because there is a war.
Did you witness some of the fighting?
Everyone in the country did.
You mean you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?
Yes, all the time.
Cool.
I smile a little.
You should tell us about it sometime.
Yes, sometime.
This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But it is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived.
This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.
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| Weight | 0.3 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.6 × 14.6 × 1.5 cm |
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