A Long Way Gone
Subtitle: memoirs of a boy soldier
By: Ishmael Beah
Edition: 1st pbk. ed. (5)
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781553653981
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Child soldiers; Biography; Personal narratives; History; Social conditions
Description: At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone 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. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal.

This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
--back cover