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A LONG WAY GONE - ISHMAEL BEAH KARTONIERT (TB)

In the #1 New York Times bestseller  A Long Way Gone  Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how
at the age of twelve  he fled attacking rebels 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.    My new friends have begun to suspect
I haven't told them the full story of my life.   "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because
there is a war." "You mean  you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?"
"Yes  all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes 
sometime."   This is how wars are fought now: by children  hopped-up on drugs and wielding
AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on
worldwide  it is estimated that there are some 300 000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be
one of them.  What is war 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 until now  there has not been a first-person account from
someone who came through this hell and survived.  This is a rare and mesmerizing account  told
with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

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