A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Ishmael Beah
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Ishmael Beah
In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 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 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.
This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
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“A Long Way Gone is one of the most important war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern world, and yet we know so little about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Ishmael Beah has not only emerged intact from this chaos, he has become one of its most eloquent chroniclers. We ignore his message at our peril.” —Sebastian Junger, author of A Death in Belmont and A Perfect Storm
“This is a beautifully written book about a shocking war and the children who were forced to fight it. Ishmael Beah describes the unthinkable in calm, unforgettable language; his memoir is an important testament to the children elsewhere who continue to be conscripted into armies and militias.” —Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general Nonfiction
“A Long Way Gone hits you hard in the gut with Sierra Leone's unimaginable brutality and then it touches your soul with unexpected acts of kindness. Ishmael Beah's story tears your heart to pieces and then forces you to put it back together again, because if Beah can emerge from such horror with his humanity in tact, it's the least you can do.” —Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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One day.... One day I will meet him and thank him in person. And another day, I will visit the land of my ancestors, Sierra Leone.
Nothing Like It
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A long way gone = intense
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it was great!
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hear the story from the man who lived it
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Lost childhoods--so sad
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one of the best books I've ever read.
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The boy soldier is reintroduced to extended family and given a second chance at his childhood. Still I wondered. It wasn’t until he made the effort to escape being forced to serve in the military again and his concern for how his foster mother might fear him, that I believed he might have changed.
There were times I wondered about the truthfulness of this story because I felt there were details left out to intentionally improve the author’s image given the gravity of the crimes against innocent people that he committed. In my research, I discovered there are questions about the details but more along the timeline. I still believe there was more to the story of what his group of soldiers did to people than he shared. The whole thing breaks my heart. I think of the innocent people caught in the war, raped and murdered for their food and of the lost innocence of the children forced to fight to survive and who ultimately grew to make a game of taking other people’s lives. I feel extremely fortunate not to have faced anything like this in my own life, so how can I judge without the experience?
A Horrific Story of War in Africa
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Ishmael Beah is AMAZING
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Simplistic story telling.
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expertly written and narrated
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