A Long Way Gone

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At the age of twelve, Ishmael Bean 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.
"A breathtaking and unself-pitying account of how a gentle spirit survives a childhood from which all the innocence has suddenly been sucked out. It's a truly riveting memoir." —Belinda Luscombe, Time
"The book is raw, run through with melancholy, but so honest and longing that hundreds of thousands have read it, and it's made Beah arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature." —Dave Eggers,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

At the age of twelve, Ishmael Bean 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.
"A breathtaking and unself-pitying account of how a gentle spirit survives a childhood from which all the innocence has suddenly been sucked out. It's a truly riveting memoir." —Belinda Luscombe, Time
"The book is raw, run through with melancholy, but so honest and longing that hundreds of thousands have read it, and it's made Beah arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature." —Dave Eggers, Vanity Fair
^No outsider could have written this book, and it's hard to imagine that many msiders could do so with such acute vision, stark language, and tenderness. It Is a heartrending achievement." —Melissa Fay Greene, Elle
A reading group guide for A Long Way Bone is available at www.fsgboolts.coin.
Cover design by Jennifer Carrow
Front cover photograph by Michael Kamber/Polaris
Author photograph by John IVIadere
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