Ishmael Beah
My folks met Ishmael Beah at Hay a couple of weeks ago. On their recommendation, I bought A Long Way Gone - Beah's own story of the descent into hell in Sierra Leone and his time as a child soldier, fed a diet of cocaine mixed with gunpowder. A couple of pages in, and you will be utterly hooked. This is one of the most harrowing and compulsive books you will ever read.
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I read this book over Spring break. A great page turner in a light literary kind of way.
I couldn't believe 1/4 of the thing those kids went through. And to think some of them got kidnapped at 5.
Makes you wonder about humans; the thing we do to get other. Is there any hope in a world were children are turned into the killers of their own blood-brethren?
Did you read Uzodinma Iweala's 'Beasts of no Nation'?This is the real thing - I'm scared to read it...
I heard Ishmael Beah being interviewed on radio 4. It was interesting. Will definately get the book
The following week Biyi Bandele was being interviewed - his novel is out Burma Boy
check out the link from the guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,2093390,00.html.
Check out Blood River which is also out this month
Blood River: Africa's broken heart by Tim Butcher
Mae
Nice blog.
Do you happen to have direct contact info for Beah, by any chance?? If yes, pls hit me at [email protected]
Are you kidding? This guy is no hero. He's a total literary fraud. He's found a good thing (if you can call killing as a child soldier a good thing)...and he's used it to advance bis career. The book is a literary fraud, and that is beyond doubt.
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