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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. [1] The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.
A Long Way Gone was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut Author category for 2007. Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at No. 3, and praising it as "painfully sharp", and its ability to take "readers behind the dead eyes of the child-soldier in a way no other writer has."
Sarah Crichton Books published authors such as Cathleen Schine, David Finkel, Matthew Quick, John Leland, Brigid Schulte, and Ishmael Beah whose memoir of his life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, became an international bestseller. [17]
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Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was a bestseller and a Starbucks-featured book in 2007. [31] [32] Faber and Faber Inc. published a backlist of drama and books on the arts, entertainment, music, pop culture, cultural criticism