{"product_id":"long-way-gone-pb","title":"LONG WAY GONE PB","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life.\u003cbr\u003e'Why did you leave Sierra Leone '\u003cbr\u003e'Because there is a war.'\u003cbr\u003e'You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other '\u003cbr\u003e'Yes, all the time.'\u003cbr\u003e'Cool.'\u003cbr\u003eI smile a little.\u003cbr\u003e'You should tell us about it sometime.'\u003cbr\u003e'Yes, sometime.''\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWhat 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, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found he was capable of truly terrible acts.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThis is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54204786049362,"sku":"9780007247097","price":14.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_8267fd84-982d-4ad3-960f-9883f7acd1c7.jpg?v=1786111568","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/long-way-gone-pb","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}