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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. [1] . The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.
- Ishmael Beah
- 240 pp (first edition)
- 2007
- February 13, 2007
Aug 5, 2008 · Ishmael Beah, born in 1980 in Sierra Leone, West Africa, is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. The book has been published in over thirty languages and was nominated for a Quill Award in 2007. Time magazine named the book as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2007, ranking it at number three.
- Ishmael Beah
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Feb 13, 2007 · Ishmael Beah. 4.16. 187,352 ratings12,094 reviews. The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells 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 became a soldier.
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Aug 5, 2008 · In the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah 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.
Ishmael Beah (born 23 November 1980) is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, A Long Way Gone. His novel Radiance of Tomorrow was published in January 2014. His most recent novel Little Family was published in April 2020.
- Sierra Leonean
- Ishmael Beah, 23 November 1980 (age 42), Mogbwemo, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone
- Junior Beah, Ibrahim Beah (siblings), Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda (wife)
- A Long Way Gone, Little Family, Radiance of Tomorrow
Apr 1, 2007 · by Ishmael Beah (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.6 7,442 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
- Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr 1, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 240 pages. In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of...
