4/$20 A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah - Hardcover

Mix and match listings marked as 4/$20 and get a $20 + shipping offer on 4 books. Weight limit up to 5lbs. This used book is in a good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and possible minor marks within. Comes from the smoke free and pet friendly home. A riveting memoir, destined to become an international best-seller, which recounts a remarkable story of war, survival and redemption—the rest ever written by a former child soldier. It is estimated that in the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now in his mid-twenties, tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels in his homeland of Sierra Leone 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.