As a 13-year-old fighting in Sierra Leone's civil war, Ishmael Beah was forced into a drug-fuelled life of bloodletting and revenge. Now, having fled to America, he has written a cathartic - and bestselling - memoir.
A Long Way Gone is by any measure an extraordinary book, by turns intensely harrowing - he spares nothing in his descriptions of the horrors of war and his own role in it - and deeply inspiring. If there is one abiding theme it is this: it is easy to cross the line from humanity to barbarity; far, far harder to cross back.
Interview and Extract from The Telegraph
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