num_pages: 229
description: A first-person account, told by a 25-year-old veteran of the Sierra Leone conflict, this title is a heartbreaking, honest and important memoir about the horrors of war and the lost innocence of the youthful combatants.
language: English
title: A Long Way Gone - Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier
titlecomplete: A Long Way Gone - Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier
characters: Kanei, Saidu, "Junior" Beah, Musa, Ishmael Beah, Jumah, Alhaji, Moriba, Khalilou, Esther, Talloi
genres: Biography, History, Autobiography, Africa, War, Nonfiction, Sierra Leone, Biography Memoir, Memoir, School
ratings_count: 184460
places: New York City, New York, Sierra Leone
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: NAIBA Book of the Year
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
publisher: Farrar Straus, 2007