A Long Way Gone - 非洲

身為娃娃兵的一份子
他在十八歲那年來到美國
完成高中最後兩年
畢業的那一年
以英文寫作為主修的他
寫出一本以平凡樸實的敘事手法
傳述真實經歷西非獅子山共和國內戰的故事

紐約時報試閱:
http://tinyurl.com/3yl7cs

In A LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah, now twenty-six years old,
tells a powerfully gripping 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. At sixteen, he was removed
from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his
rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his
humanity, and, finally, to heal.

This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary
force and heartbreaking honesty.


Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He moved to the United States
in 1998 and finished his last two years of high school at the United Nations
International School in New York. In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College
with a B.A. in political science. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch
Children’s Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the
United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging
Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory,
and many other NGO panels on children affected by the war. His work has
appeared in VespertinePress and LIT magazine. He lives in New York City.

http://alongwaygone.com/





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