An edition of A Long Way Gone (2007)

A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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An edition of A Long Way Gone (2007)

A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

First paperback edition (21)
  • 4.1 (34 ratings) ·
  • 371 Want to read
  • 29 Currently reading
  • 47 Have read

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) is a memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone (1990s). Beah was 12 years old when he fled his village after it was attacked by rebels, and he wandered the war-filled country until brainwashed by an army unit that forced him to use guns and drugs. By 13, he had perpetrated and witnessed numerous acts of violence. Three years later, UNICEF rescued him from the unit and put him into a rehabilitation program that helped him find his uncle, who would eventually adopt him. After his return to civilian life he began traveling the United States recounting his story.

A Long Way Gone was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut Author category for 2007.

Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at No. 3, and praising it as "painfully sharp", and its ability to take "readers behind the dead eyes of the child-soldier in a way no other writer has."

A Long Way Gone was listed as one of the top ten books for young adults by the American Library Association in 2008.

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Paw Prints
Language
English
Pages
229

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Cover of: Dặm Dài Đã Qua
Dặm Dài Đã Qua
2009, Van Hoa Thong Tin/Tsai Fong Books
paperback in Vietnamese
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A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier
2009, Douglas & McIntyre
Paperback in English - 1st pbk. ed. (5)
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Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2008, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2008, Paw Prints
Library Binding in English - First paperback edition (21)
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Ver van huis: herinneringen van een kindsoldaat
2007, Sijthoff
in Dutch
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A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier
2007, Windsor | Paragon
Hardcover in English - UK Hardcover Large Print edition
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Ru ckkehr ins Leben: ich war Kindersoldat
2007, Campus-Verl.
in German
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2007, Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A Long Way Gone
2007, Fourth Estate
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2007, Fourth Estate
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Copyright Date
2007

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
966.404
Library of Congress
DT516.828.B43 A3 2007

The Physical Object

Format
Library Binding
Pagination
229p.
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26684216M
ISBN 10
1439514127
ISBN 13
9781439514122
LCCN
2006017101
Goodreads
61924092

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