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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) is a 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 civil war in Sierra Leone (1990s).
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- Author
- Ishmael Beah
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Large Print Press, Macmillan Audio, Casa das Letras
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Dutch, Portuguese, tur, English
- ISBN
- 8935077060058
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Ishmael Beah (born 23 November 1980) is a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist who rose to fame with his acclaimed memoir, *A Long Way Gone*. His novel *Radiance of Tomorrow* was published in January 2014. His most recent novel *Little Family* was published in April 2020 [(Source)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_Beah?oldformat=true "Source").
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