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by Ishmael Beah
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Book Candy
Book Candy rated it 16 years ago
Terribly sad but one of the best memoirs I have read in a long, long time.
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Absolutely heart-wrenching and inspirational.
audreyhawkins
audreyhawkins rated it 17 years ago
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...
mrsbond
mrsbond rated it 17 years ago
Life is wonderfully normal until the war hits home, literally. Which side your on has more to do with who found you first than what you believe.
Titles are so hard to come up with...
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 ...
Osho
Osho rated it 18 years ago
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...
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