Ishmael Beah: A Long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone
Buch
- The True Story of a Child Soldier
- Verlag:
- HarperCollins Publishers, 01/2008
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780007247097
- Artikelnummer:
- 2073337
- Umfang:
- 400 Seiten
- Sonstiges:
- w. sketch map.
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2008
- Gewicht:
- 186 g
- Maße:
- 197 x 128 mm
- Stärke:
- 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 7.1.2008
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Weitere Ausgaben von A Long Way Gone |
Preis |
---|
Kurzbeschreibung
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.'My new friends have begun to suspect that 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."'This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. There are more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide and it is estimated there are some 300, 000 child soldiers fighting. 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. Ishmael Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels and wandered aland rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.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.Biografie
Ishmael Beah, geboren 1980 in Sierra Leone, war zwölf, als der Bürgerkrieg in sein Leben einbrach. Er verlor seine Eltern und seinen Bruder im Krieg. Nach drei Jahren als Kindersoldat in der Nationalarmee gelangte er mithilfe von UNICEF in ein Rehabilitationscamp. Der Weg zurück in die Normalität wird lang und schmerzhaft. Heute lebt Ishmael Beah in New York. Er arbeitet für Human Rights Watch und engagiert sich weltweit für vom Krieg betroffene Kinder. Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone
EUR 14,46*