A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
“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. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. 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.
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 literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 30, 2008 Type: User Review |
Intense, heartwrenching, difficult -- important.
Incredible memoir...
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I found the book spellbounding and depressing. I could not put it down for the first two third's of the book. I gave it to my daughter who thought it was just as good.
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I heard his story as he did an interview on NPR. I raced to the bookstore to pick up my copy. The book took me through every emotion. I sat in my living room wondering how a kid could go through such a life like his.
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A rare book
One of the few books that ever gave me nightmares. More politicians should read this book. It gives a harrowing description of just what horrors lie in store for children born into military and other revolutions. A definite worthwhile read for...
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I'm deeply touched and sadden after reading A long way gone this book should be required school book so our children can be aware of what's going on. There were times when I actually had to put this book down.It's hard to rate this book reason...
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