A Long Way Gone

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.

Informationen zum Autor Ishmael Beah came to the United States when he was seventeen and graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations on several occasions. He lives in New York City. Klappentext The true story of a 26 year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12 year-old boy. Ishmael tells his story of how he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By 13 he'd been picked up by the government army and found out that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Zusammenfassung The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.