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。
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.
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.
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. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
"My new friends have begun to suspect 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.'"
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...
评分看过一些战争片,更是大言不惭的讨论过战争与和平的问题。却从来没有认真思考过战争、也根本没有意识到自己的这种无知。 和平时代的人们眼中的战争,以及在和平的国家的大部分平民,对战争都有本能的、理想主义的幼稚以至于过分乐观的indiferrence。我如此,很多别人更必然如此...
评分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. ...
评分很多年前看的,具体内容可能已记不清。但我知道这是一本值得一看的书,它让你了解到另一个世界。或许只是管中窥豹,但至少比闭着眼不看的好。长路漫漫,他们没有童年,在战争引发的灾难与兽性中寻找出路。主人公是幸运的,更多的永远化作了这条无尽之路上的一捧尘土。 希望钻石...
评分“你到底一共杀过多少人?”面对巴黎记者的提问,伊斯梅尔•比亚的回答冷静得让人恐惧:“真的不知道,从没想过要去数。”在美国的六千多家星巴克,伊斯梅尔的回忆录《长路漫漫》搭配着咖啡,每卖出一本,UNICEF(联合儿童基金会)有两美元的进账。 1980年伊斯梅尔出生在西非...
从孩子到童兵再重新回到童年,战争带来的剧痛是残酷真实难以磨灭的。
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评分看到了不一样的世界,但不知道是否真实,外国有很多争议,但还是不错看的,英文很简单。
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