A Long Way Gone

伊斯梅尔·比亚，1980年出生于塞拉利昂。1998年赴美国完成在联合国国际学校的高中课程。2004年获得欧柏林大学政治科学学士学位。现在的他是联合国的人权观察员，并多次在联合国大会上发言。现居纽约。

出版者:Farrar, Straus And Giroux

作者:Ishmael Beah

页数:400

出版时间:2008

价格:90.00元

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780007247097

图书标签:小说bio-autobio

The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. '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.

读后感

长路漫漫，是我给自己定下的100本书单的第三本。当然作为看了无数网络小说，以及还是有那么多的世界名著的我，可以体味到与正常小说架构不同的叙事方法。 而这种方法，让我感觉到无比真实。我仿佛能看到一群小伙伴在逃难的路上，因为饥饿，因为失去亲人的痛苦，也又能体味到美...  

我们的童年是幸福的，被父母宠着、惯着，我们是生活在蜜糖中的孩子。我们不曾想过在世界的另一头——非洲西部的塞拉利昂，那里的人们却生活在战争的阴影之中，那里被恐怖的死亡气氛所笼罩着，到处都是孩子、妇女、老人的哭叫声和炮弹的轰隆声。作者比亚根据对这段亲身遭遇所写...  

在那些捧着PSP，听着ipod，喝着可乐长大的一代少年看来，“战争”似乎只存在于好莱坞的电影里。但对于另一群少年而言，“战争”就是意味着赤裸裸的血腥和屠戮。 他们手中不再是玩具枪，而是一把把货真价实的AK-47。在枪林弹雨间，他们呼喊着杀人又或被杀，蹉跎于年轻人生的地平...  

This book tells stories of a boy's memory in a civil war. In this war, either side desperately seeks every opportunity to kill the other side. The important message from this book is that even an innocent person as a school child cannot stay independent. ...  

很长时间内都刻意避免主动去看这个世界的丑陋与无奈，避谈政治民生避谈国际大事。不是别的什么原因，只是每每看到世界各处发生的悲剧，会心生惭愧。我痛恨空谈空论，要么就做些什么有裨益的，要么就干脆闭嘴。别人痛苦的时候没有给予帮助。没有阻止悲剧没有化解悲痛。作一个旁...  

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