A Long Way Gone_ Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
Praise for A LONG WAY GONE
“Beah…speaks in a distinctive voice, and he tells an important story.”
—JOHN CORRY, The Wall Street Journal
“Americans tend to regard African conflicts as somewhat vague events signified by horrendous concepts—massacres, genocide, mutilation—that are best kept safely at a distance. Such a disconnect might prove impossible after reading A Long Way Gone,…a clear-eyed, undeniably compelling look at wartime violence…Gone finds its power in the revelation that under the ...