A Long Way Gone: (Record no. 1851)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 1851 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240110155253.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780374105235 |
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| Transcribing agency | Booku |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 920 BEA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ishmael Beah |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Long Way Gone: |
| Remainder of title | Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 became a soldier. |
| Expansion of summary note | My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.<br/>“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”<br/>“Because there is a war.”<br/>“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”<br/>“Yes, all the time.”<br/>“Cool.”<br/>I smile a little.<br/>“You should tell us about it sometime.”<br/>“Yes, sometime.”<br/><br/>This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.<br/><br/>What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.<br/><br/>In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: 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 Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.<br/><br/>This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total checkouts | Full call number | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Geography and History | Booku Library Services | Booku Library Services | 10/01/2024 | Donation | 920 BEA | 10/01/2024 | 1 | 10/01/2024 | Book |