March 19, 2010 7:00 PM - 8 attended
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier
Let's discuss the book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier" by Ishmael Beah.
Here's the summary from the book:
"A gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back.
There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words.
In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of twelve, 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 that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope."
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JorgeAssistant OrganizerIt's sad and hard to believe this kind of things happen in this time an age. Great conversation that helped us to understand a little better the world in which we live and raised questions as of what can we do to help.
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AnorAssistant Organizer, EmeritusVery interesting, wide ranging and thought-provok
ing conversation inspired by the author's experiences. Looking forward to the next book.
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