This book actually isn't by Ishmael Beah (he wrote the foreword), it's by Kendry Dupuy & Krijn Peters.The subtitle of this book describes it as a "handbook" and on Amazon, part of the description reads, "Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher." So I guess it's an academic book that tr...
I'm sorry, I'm so very sorry for what I am about to do. It seems unbelievably curmudgeonly of me to judge this book harshly given its subject matter. But I can't let the deep empathy I feel for this former Sierra Leonean child soldier cloud my judgement of his memoir. I give him five stars - more! ...
Dear Ms. Naomi Campbell,I have always been an ardent aficionado of your work; from your heydays sashaying the YSL runaways along with Linda Evangelista to crooning in George Michael’s Freedom video. Your numerous sexual trysts with celebrated oligarchs and other questionable chaps were highly fascin...
Ishmael Beah tells his harrowing story in straight-forward, direct language. More incredible than the story itself is his ability to write it at all. As a 13 year old child soldier "recruited" by the Sierra Leonean Army, he participates in horrific violence. His physical survival is perhaps a matter...
Sierra Leone.A searing memoir by a Sierra Leonean boy soldier. He writes clearly and directly about his horrific experiences, often in simple yet beautiful passages. I've read a reasonable number of memoirs by child war victims, but few by young people who, like Beah, actively participated as combat...
it's so awful to think that someone essentially my age went through so much already in his life. i went to college with ish, and he seemed like a nice, quiet, incredibly smart, friendly guy. i never would have guessed...although, in retrospect, he did seem above all the stupid college drama. now ...
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