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Ishmael Beah is a bestselling author and UNICEF advocate for children affected by war. His #1 New York Times bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier has been published in more than 40 languages and sold over 2.6 million copies. As The Washington Post urged: “everyone in the world should read this book.” His remarkable debut is both […]
Ishmael Beah is a bestselling author and UNICEF advocate for children affected by war. His #1 New York Times bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier has been published in more than 40 languages and sold over 2.6 million copies.
As The Washington Post urged: “everyone in the world should read this book.” His remarkable debut is both a testament to the inherent humanity of the young as well as a first-hand look at the long road to redemption, themes he has continued to explore in his harrowing fiction.
A Long Way Gone recounts the harrowing years Ishmael Beah spent as a child soldier—one of an estimated 300,000 worldwide. Born in Sierra Leone, Beah was only twelve when civil war came to his country, upending the lives of millions.
Fleeing attacking rebels, he was soon separated from his family and wandering 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.
After two years, with UNICEF help, Ishmael Beah was removed from the army and placed in a rehabilitation home where he learned to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal.
A rare firsthand account, A Long Way Gone was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “a clear-eyed, undeniably compelling look at wartime violence.”
It was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut Author category for 2007, and TIME named the book as one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2007, noting its “breathtaking and self pitying account of how a gentle spirit survives a childhood from which all innocence has suddenly been sucked out. It’s a truly riveting memoir.”
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