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Title: Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierA
Publication Year: 2007Subject: History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Biography & Autobiography
Length: UnabridgedTopic: Personal Memoirs, Military Science, Africa / General, Military, Africa / West
Language: EnglishAuthor: Ishmael Beah
ISBN-10: 1427202303Format: Audio
ISBN-13: 9781427202307Publisher: Macmillan Audio

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Along with millions of others in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah found his life torn from its mooring by the cataclysmic events of the 1991 civil war. He was 12 years old when he lost his family and became a wandering refugee, and by 15 he had joined the thousands of child soldiers waging war across the devastated nation. Though he grew up surrounded by atrocity, violence, and chaos, Beah somehow managed, with the help of a UNICEF-sponsored organization, to leave his soldier life behind, and eventually fled the country to America. Ishmael Beah's vivid, brilliant, and harrowing account is a gripping testament to the nature of life in a country where the foundation of civilization has crumbled and the concept of childhood has tragically disappeared.

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Author:Ishmael Beah
Language:English
Publisher:Macmillan Audio
Format:Audio
ISBN-10:1427202303
ISBN-13:9781427202307

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Edition Description:Unabridged

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Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:8 oz

Publisher's Note
This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.
 
Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. 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.
 
In A Long Way Gone Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, 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 government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
 


A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.

In A Long Way Gone audiobook, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, 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 government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle, boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heratbreaking honesty.

Industry Reviews
"[A LONG WAY GONE] goes beyond even the best journalistic effort in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare....Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic." (starred review)
(12/18/2006)

"It is a vision of hell that Beah gives us, one worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, but as though depicted in primary colors by a naïve artist....A LONG WAY GONE makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact."
(02/25/2007)

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

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Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and became a child soldier.

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This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.
 
Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. 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.
 
In" A Long Way Gone Beah," now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, 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 government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that 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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  • ISBN 1427202303
  • ISBN-13 9781427202307
  • Title A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
  • Author Ishmael Beah
  • Format Compact Disc
  • Year 2007
  • Publisher MacMillan Audio
  • Dimensions5.1 in. x 0.9 in. x 6 in.

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