Read More on Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah will read on Monday, October 27, 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall.
Ishmael Beah is the author of the best-selling memoir A Long Way Gone, the story of his experience as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Sebastian Junger writes, "A Long Way Gone is one of the most important war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern world, and yet we know so little about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Ishmael Beah… has become one of its most eloquent chroniclers."
- Find a copy of A Long Way Gone in Tripod.
- Read more about Beah in Literature Resource Center.
- Beah talks about the book and his experiences on the A Long Way Gone homepage.
