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7 Reviews
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beth said on Jul 9, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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deeply heavy, but inspiring.
it's the world we're all living in, in a different way. it's told really like a fiction, as it's so hard to believe and especially you know this is no history for Africa, this is on-going for many countries in the world.
a must-read, for getting to know the world, for ... (continue)Clio said on Jun 1, 2010 | Add your feedback
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JonnieBean said on Jan 16, 2009 | Add your feedback
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Benedetta said on Sep 5, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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Jas said on Jun 20, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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Gobs Chan said on May 24, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 400 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0007247095
- ISBN-13: 9780007247097
- Publisher: HarperPerennial
- Pub date: Jan 07, 2008
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780007247097 | Paperback | $12.86 | $7.96 | The Book Depository |
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An interesting memoir -- author was a boy soldier (15 yo) in Sierra Leone and book details his experiences. Eyeopening re: evolution of a civil strife into civil war and devolution of a country. Begins with very brief look at village life before it is torn apart by war. After rebel soldiers come ... (continue)
An interesting memoir -- author was a boy soldier (15 yo) in Sierra Leone and book details his experiences. Eyeopening re: evolution of a civil strife into civil war and devolution of a country. Begins with very brief look at village life before it is torn apart by war. After rebel soldiers come to the village, villagers are scattered in their efforts to escape and author begins journey through the jungle, first in effort to escape the fighting and find his family and then as a child soldier. Although there is much on the psychological changes the author goes through as he experiences increasing exposure to war and violence, culminating in becoming the person who inflicts the violence, and then eventually reforms, I got the feeling that much was missing from the narrative. Adding to this feeling was the sense that either the author was not that skilled at portraying his feelings or that he was choosing to leave a lot out.
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