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Adult/High School—This gripping story by a children's-rights advocate recounts his experiences as a boy growing up in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, during one of the most brutal and violent civil wars in recent history. Beah, a boy equally thrilled by causing mischief as by memorizing passages from Shakespeare and dance moves from hip-hop videos, was a typical precocious 12-year-old. But rebel forces destroyed his childhood innocence when they hit his village, driving him to leave his home and travel the arid deserts and jungles of Africa. After several months of struggle, he was recruited by the national army, made a full soldier and learned to shoot an AK-47, and hated everyone who came up against the rebels. The first two thirds of his memoir are frightening: how easy it is for a normal boy to transform into someone as addicted to killing as he is to the cocaine that the army makes readily available. But an abrupt change occurred a few years later when agents from the United Nations pulled him out of the army and placed him in a rehabilitation center. Anger and hate slowly faded away, and readers see the first glimmers of Beah's work as an advocate. Told in a conversational, accessible style, this powerful record of war ends as a beacon to all teens experiencing violence around them by showing them that there are other ways to survive than by adding to the chaos.—Matthew L. Moffett, Pohick Regional Library, Burke, VA
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“Everyone in the world should read this book. Not just because it contains an amazing story, or because it’s our moral, bleeding-heart duty, or because it’s clearly written. We should read it to learn about the world and about what it means to be human.” —Washington Post
“A breathtaking and unselfpitying account of how a gentle spirit survives a childhood from which all innocence has suddenly been sucked out. It's a truly riveting memoir.” —Time
“Beah is a gifted writer. . . Read his memoir and you will be haunted . . . It’s a high price to pay, but it’s worth it.” —Newsweek.com
“Deeply moving, even uplifting…Beah's story, with its clear-eyed reporting and literate particularity—whether he's dancing to rap, eating a coconut or running toward the burning village where his family is trapped—demands to be read.”
“Beah is a gifted writer. . . Read his memoir and you will be haunted . . . It’s a high price to pay, but it’s worth it.” —Newsweek.com
“Deeply moving, even uplifting…Beah's story, with its clear-eyed reporting and literate particularity—whether he's dancing to rap, eating a coconut or running toward the burning village where his family is trapped—demands to be read.”
—People (Critic’s Choice, Four stars)
“Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is unforgettable testimony that Africa’s children—millions of them dying and orphaned by preventable diseases, hundreds of thousands of them forced into battle—have eyes to see and voices to tell what has happened. And what voices! How is it possible that 26-year-old Beah, a nonnative English speaker, separated from his family at age 12, taught to maim and to kill at 13, can sound such notes of family happiness, of friendship under duress, of quiet horror? No outsider could have written this book, and it’s hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision, stark language, and tenderness. It is a heart-rending achievement.” —Melissa Fay Greene, Elle
“When Beah is finally approached about the possibility of serving as a spokesperson on the issue of child soldiers, he knows exactly what he wants to tell the world: “I would always tell people that I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.”
Others may make the same assertions, but Beah has the advantage of stating them in the first person. That makes A Long Way Gone all the more gripping.” —Christian Science Monitor
“In place of a text that has every right to be a diatribe against Sierra Leone, globalization or even himself, Beah has produced a book of such self-effacing humanity that refugees, political fronts and even death squads resolve themselves back into the faces of mothers, fathers and siblings. A Long Way Gone transports us into the lives of thousands of children whose lives have been altered by war, and it does so with a genuine and disarmingly emotional force.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“What Beah saw and did during [the war] has haunted him ever since, and if you read his stunning and unflinching memoir, you'll be haunted, too . . . It would have been enough if Ishmael Beah had merely survived the horrors described in A Long Way Gone. That he has written this unforgettable firsthand account of his odyssey is harder still to grasp. Those seeking to understand the human consequences of war, its brutal and brutalizing costs, would be wise to reflect on Ishmael Beah's story.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Beah speaks in a distinctive voice, and he tells an important story.” —The Wall Street Journal
“When Beah is finally approached about the possibility of serving as a spokesperson on the issue of child soldiers, he knows exactly what he wants to tell the world: “I would always tell people that I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.”
Others may make the same assertions, but Beah has the advantage of stating them in the first person. That makes A Long Way Gone all the more gripping.” —Christian Science Monitor
“In place of a text that has every right to be a diatribe against Sierra Leone, globalization or even himself, Beah has produced a book of such self-effacing humanity that refugees, political fronts and even death squads resolve themselves back into the faces of mothers, fathers and siblings. A Long Way Gone transports us into the lives of thousands of children whose lives have been altered by war, and it does so with a genuine and disarmingly emotional force.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“What Beah saw and did during [the war] has haunted him ever since, and if you read his stunning and unflinching memoir, you'll be haunted, too . . . It would have been enough if Ishmael Beah had merely survived the horrors described in A Long Way Gone. That he has written this unforgettable firsthand account of his odyssey is harder still to grasp. Those seeking to understand the human consequences of war, its brutal and brutalizing costs, would be wise to reflect on Ishmael Beah's story.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Beah speaks in a distinctive voice, and he tells an important story.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Hideously effective in conveying the essential horror of his experiences.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Extraordinary . . . A ferocious and desolate account of how ordinary children were turned into professional killers.” —The Guardian UK
"A Long Way Gone is one of the most important war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern world, and yet we know so little about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Ishmael Beah has not only emerged intact from this chaos, he has become one of its most eloquent chroniclers. We ignore his message at our peril." —Sebastian Junger, author of A Death in Belmont and A Perfect Storm
"This is a beautifully written book about a shocking war and the children who were forced to fight it. Ishmael Beah describes the unthinkable in calm, unforgettable language; his memoir is an important testament to the children elsewhere who continue to be conscripted into armies and militias." —Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general Nonfiction
"This is a beautifully written book about a shocking war and the children who were forced to fight it. Ishmael Beah describes the unthinkable in calm, unforgettable language; his memoir is an important testament to the children elsewhere who continue to be conscripted into armies and militias." —Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general Nonfiction
"This is a wrenching, beautiful, and mesmerizing tale. Beah's amazing saga provides a haunting lesson about how gentle folks can be capable of great brutalities as well goodness and courage. It will leave you breathless." —Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
“A Long Way Gone hits you hard in the gut with Sierra Leone’s unimaginable brutality and then it touches your soul with unexpected acts of kindness. Ishmael Beah’s story tears your heart to pieces and then forces you to put it back together again, because if Beah can emerge from such horror with his humanity in tact, it’s the least you can do.” —Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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Congratulations for telling such a compelling and well-polished story. You did a great job making it insightful and engaging. his is a story that will strike a chord with its target readership and any one who has been trapped in situations imposed by the environment. It reminded me of Flash of the Sun, with the young Gavin caught in the madness of war. Africa's wars have produced so many child victims.
You alas made effective use of dialogue and narrative and you easily catch the mind of the reader from the start, keeping the freader engaged all the way to the end. My kudos.
You alas made effective use of dialogue and narrative and you easily catch the mind of the reader from the start, keeping the freader engaged all the way to the end. My kudos.
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Das Buch von Ishmael Beah ist eines der besten Bücher über den Krieg und dessen schrecklichen Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft. Dass die unglaubliche Spannung, die sich übers ganze Buch hindruchzieht real ist, macht sie zu einer unglaublichen Tragik. Meiner Meinung nach ein "must read".
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Ishmael Beah erzählt seine beeindruckende aber auch sehr bedrückende Geschichte als Kindersoldat während des Bürgerkriegs in Sierra Leone. Inhaltlich verdient das Buch die Bestnote, da es den Leser fesselt. Es ist mir (und ihm selbst wahrscheinlich auch) unbegreiflich, wie Beah diesen Krieg überleben konnte. Die Erlebnisse sind zwangsläufig brutal, aber nicht auf reißerische Weise erzählt. Die Kapitel über seine Zeit unmittelbar nach der Entwaffnung geben herausragende Einblicke in die Psyche von Kindersoldaten!
Das Buch ist geschickt aufgebaut: Es beginnt in der Gegenwart und springt anschließend zu Beahs Kindheit, mehrfach wird kurz wieder zur Gegenwart geblendet. Dadurch bekommt man einen guten Einblick von den psychischen Folgen der Erlebnisse als Kindersoldat. Schwach ist, dass der Teil zwischen Flucht nach Guinea und Beahs Ausreise in die USA völlig fehlt. Das Buch endet abrupt, mindestens ein weiteres Kapitel wäre wünschenswert gewesen.
Die Sprache ist einfaches Englisch, nicht kindlich, aber zumindest ohne langjährige Englischkenntnisse problemlos zu verstehen. Thumbs up!
Das Buch ist geschickt aufgebaut: Es beginnt in der Gegenwart und springt anschließend zu Beahs Kindheit, mehrfach wird kurz wieder zur Gegenwart geblendet. Dadurch bekommt man einen guten Einblick von den psychischen Folgen der Erlebnisse als Kindersoldat. Schwach ist, dass der Teil zwischen Flucht nach Guinea und Beahs Ausreise in die USA völlig fehlt. Das Buch endet abrupt, mindestens ein weiteres Kapitel wäre wünschenswert gewesen.
Die Sprache ist einfaches Englisch, nicht kindlich, aber zumindest ohne langjährige Englischkenntnisse problemlos zu verstehen. Thumbs up!
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