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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Hardcover • 2007 • English

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By Ishmael Beah

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About the book

In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. 75,000 first printing.

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ISBN

9780374105235

Publisher

Farrar Straus Giroux

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Format

Hardcover

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