Author: Ishmael Beah
Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier
Description: Harper Perennial 2008 Paperback, 229pp. The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 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. Small crease on cover. Pages beginning to tan. Light spotting on first page. (ISBN: 9780007247097). Good.

Keywords: Biography, History, War9780007247097 9780007247097


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