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'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life.
"Why did you leave Sierra Leone?"
"Because there is a war."
"You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?"
"Yes, all the time."
"Cool."
I smile a little.
"You should tell us about it sometime."
"Yes, sometime."'
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. There are more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide and it is estimated there are some 300,000 child soldiers fighting. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
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. Ishmael Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve in Sierra Leone, 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 he was capable of truly terrible acts.
This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life.
"Why did you leave Sierra Leone?"
"Because there is a war."
"You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?"
"Yes, all the time."
"Cool."
I smile a little.
"You should tell us about it sometime."
"Yes, sometime."'
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. There are more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide and it is estimated there are some 300,000 child soldiers fighting. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
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. Ishmael Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve in Sierra Leone, 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 he was capable of truly terrible acts.
This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Ishmael Beah came to the United States when he was seventeen and graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations on several occasions. He lives in New York City.
/ Ishmael Beah, geboren 1980 in Sierra Leone, war zwölf, als der Bürgerkrieg in sein Leben einbrach. Er verlor seine Eltern und seinen Bruder im Krieg. Nach drei Jahren als Kindersoldat in der Nationalarmee gelangte er mithilfe von UNICEF in ein Rehabilitationscamp. Der Weg zurück in die Normalität wird lang und schmerzhaft. Heute lebt Ishmael Beah in New York. Er arbeitet für Human Rights Watch und engagiert sich weltweit für vom Krieg betroffene Kinder.| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Zeitgeschichte & Politik |
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Jahrhundert: | ab 1949 |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Übersetzungstitel: | Rückkehr ins Leben |
| Inhalt: | 250 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780007247097 |
| ISBN-10: | 0007247095 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 037222 |
| Einband: | Paperback |
| Autor: | Beah, Ishmael |
| Hersteller: |
Harper Perennial
HarperCollins UK |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Abbildungen: | w. sketch map. |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 17 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Ishmael Beah |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.01.2008 |
| Gewicht: | 0,18 kg |
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