| Author |
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
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| Title |
A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah. |
| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| OCLC |
243499299 |
| ISBN |
9781427206466 |
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1427206465 |
| Publisher |
New York : Macmillan Audio, [2007] |
|
2007 |
| Description |
7 audio discs (8.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
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Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.
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Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Personal narratives.
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Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Participation, Juvenile -- Biography.
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Sierra Leone -- Social conditions -- 1961-
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Audiobooks.
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| Participant or performer note |
Read by the author. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| General note |
"A Macmillan Audiobook from Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux." |
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