A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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品牌: Ishmael Beah
基本信息出版社:Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st (2008年8月5日)平装:229页正文语种:英语ISBN:0374531269条形码:9780374531263商品尺寸:1.9 x 14.6 x 21 cm商品重量:227 gASIN:0374531269商品描述内容简介This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
InA Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels 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. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
"My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.
'Why did you leave Sierra Leone?'
'Because there is a war.'
'You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?'
'Yes, all the time.'
'Cool.'
I smile a little.
'You should tell us about it sometime.'
'Yes, sometime.'"编辑推荐The Herald
'An astonishing achievement.'--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Time Magazine
"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."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
People Magazine
"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." (Critic's Choice, Four stars)--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
The Wall Street Journal
"Beah speaks in a distinctive voice, and he tells an important story."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Daily Mail
'A gifted writer, he has transformed a brutalised childhood into
an exploration of what it means to be human.'--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
The Financial Times
`This is a journey into the Heart of Darkness - and back...it
reads like a description of a nightmare.'--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Literary Review
'...may well takes its place alongside the Diary of Anne Frank as
a classic evocation of adolescence and war.'
--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Max Hastings, The Sunday Times
'The simplicity with which Ishmael tells his story carries
conviction...an important book.'--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
The Observer
'An astonishing confession.'--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Sunday Telegraph
'...a vital addition to a small but growing canon of literature to
emerge from post-war Sierra Leone...'--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
