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A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Paperback, 2008)

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'A corrosive, eloquent and illuminating account of a child soldier's life, and it makes you look at the news with a fresh eye. What he has done is to make his situation imaginable for us, and stop us from simply turning away in horror.

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The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. Why did you leave Sierra Leone? Because there is a war. 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, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. There are more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide and it is estimated there are some 300,000 child soldiers fighting. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war 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 until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

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Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13
9780007247097
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95786855

Product Key Features

Book Title
A Long Way Gone: the True Story of a Child Soldier
Author
Ishmael Beah
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
180g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Ishmael Beah
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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