A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374531269 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 229 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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JoyfulLittleRiver said Human Faces to Boy Soldiers. "A Long Way Gone" is actually the second book by Ishmael Beah that I have had the pleasure of reading. I initially fell upon his book "Radiance of Tomorrow" at the beginning of my book journey, and it definitely helped to set the tone in regards to my book choices.Like many things in the news, boy soldiers was something I heard and read a. "It's hard to describe how much this story stuck with me" according to Bunni Monroe. I purchased my first copy of this book It's hard to describe how much this story stuck with me I purchased my first copy of this book 3 years ago, and I have since purchased another after my mother borrowed it and loaned it to a friend who knows the author by association. We all agree- this book is raw and disturbing, but one cannot stop thinking about it for a long time after reading.The book starts off with the author describing . years ago, and I have since purchased another after my mother borrowed it and loaned it to a friend who knows the author by association. We all agree- this book is raw and disturbing, but one cannot stop thinking about it for a long time after reading.The book starts off with the author describing . and brutal honesty of the book makes me recommend it to anyone twelve years old or older PCM “My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.” This is the life, Ishmael Beah was forced to live. He was one of the estimated 300,000 child soldiers hopped up on drugs with an AK47. This is how wars are now fought in over fifty conflicts worldwide. There are many books about
All rights reserved. (Beah graduated from Oberlin College in 2004.) Told in clear, accessible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war and the ongoing plight of child soldiers in conflicts worldwide. The process marks out Beah as a gifted spokesman for the center's work after his "repatriation" to civilian life in the capital, where he lives with his family and a distant uncle. Beah's harrowing journey transforms him overnight from a child enthralled by American hip-hop m
But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: 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 lite