Octopus Books Presents
Ishmael Beah - former child soldier, human rights activist and author of
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Hosted by CBC Ottawa's Adrian Harewood
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 7:00pm Bronson Centre Theatre 211 Bronson Avenue
Tickets are $10 or $5 for students/unwaged(tickets available in advance at Octopus Books, Books on Beechwood, Collected Works, Leishman Books, Mother Tongue Books and Perfect Books)
A gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back.
There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words.
In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. 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. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.
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