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| Genre/Form: | Audiobooks Biography Personal narratives |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Ishmael Beah |
| Material Type: | Biography, Audio book, etc. |
| Document Type: | Sound Recording |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ishmael Beah |
| ISBN: | 9781427206466 1427206465 |
| OCLC Number: | 243499299 |
| Notes: | Unabridged. Compact discs. "A Macmillan Audiobook from Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux." |
| Performer(s): | Read by the author. |
| Description: | 7 sound discs (8.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Responsibility: | Ishmael Beah. |
Abstract:
"This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. 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. What does war look 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 it is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty"--Container.
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