A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah

7 hours, 43 minutes first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging dark sad medium-paced
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The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and ...

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Moods

dark 79%
emotional 73%
sad 70%
challenging 53%
tense 48%
informative 46%
reflective 34%
inspiring 28%
hopeful 15%
adventurous 11%

Pace

medium 60%
fast 26%
slow 12%

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