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Representing the multitude whose stories will never be heard, Beah's memoir is honest, raw and unforgettable...connected

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Media Reviews

Elle Magazine - Melissa Fay Greene

No outsider could have written this book, and it'south hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such astute vision, stark language, and tenderness. It is a centre-rending achievement.

The New York Times - William Boyd

Beah'due south memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars…. A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it tin can happen.

Washington Post - Carolyn Run across

Everyone in the globe should read this volume. Not but because information technology contains an amazing story, or because it's our moral, haemorrhage-heart duty, or because information technology's clearly written. We should read it to learn about the world and near what it means to be man.

Wall Street Journal - John Corry

Mr. Beah's recountings are unadorned, believable and unsparing every bit he tells u.s.a. about a conflict nosotros never knew much well-nigh.

The Guardian (UK)

Extraordinary . . . A ferocious and desolate account of how ordinary children were turned into professional killers

Library Journal

Beah writes with frankness and honesty about his experiences only too with other people in heed; his account of the healing process later on the horrors he saw is remarkable. His book, especially relevant in today's world, should be in all high school, public, and academic libraries.

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Told in articulate, attainable linguistic communication by a immature author with a gifted literary voice, this memoir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war

Kirkus Reviews

Beah'south halting narrative has confusing time shifts, just information technology'southward hideously effective in conveying the essential horror of his experiences.

Author Blurb Jeannette Walls, writer of The Drinking glass Castle: A Memoir

A Long Manner Gone hits y'all difficult in the gut with Sierra Leone's unimaginable brutality and then it touches your soul with unexpected acts of kindness. Ishmael Beah'south story tears your heart to pieces and so forces you lot to put it back together again, considering if Beah can emerge from such horror with his humanity in tact, it'south the least you lot tin can practice.

Author Blurb Sebastian Junger, author of A Expiry in Belmont and A Perfect Storm

A Long Fashion Gone is one of the nigh important state of war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern earth, and yet we know so lilliputian about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Ishmael Beah has not simply emerged intact from this anarchy, he has become ane of its near eloquent chroniclers. We ignore his message at our peril.

Author Blurb Steve Coll, writer of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September ten, 2001, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general Nonfiction

This is a beautifully written book near a shocking war and the children who were forced to fight it. Ishmael Beah describes the unthinkable in calm, unforgettable language; his memoir is an of import testament to the children elsewhere who continue to be conscripted into armies and militias.

Author Blurb Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

This is a wrenching, beautiful, and mesmerizing tale. Beah's amazing saga provides a haunting lesson about how gentle folks can be capable of great brutalities too goodness and backbone. It volition go out yous incoherent.

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