Sinopsis de A LONG WAY GONE: THE TRUE STORY OF A CHILD SOLDIER
My new friends have begun to suspect that I havent 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 a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, hed 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Harpercollins Pub.
ISBN: 9780007247097
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/01/2008
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por ISHMAEL BEAH
(Sierra Leona, 1980) Escritor y activista nacido en Sierra Leona, Ishmael Beah se trasladó a los Estados Unidos en 1998 luego de escapar de la guerra civil que asoló su país durante 11 años. Terminó sus dos últimos años de escuela secundaria en la Escuela Internacional de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York. En 2004 se graduó en el Oberlin College con un B.A. en Ciencias Políticas. Es miembro del Comité Asesor de la División de Derechos del Niño de Human Rights Watch. Es autor de los libros Little Family y Radiance of Tomorrow, entre otros.