A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2007 by Ishmael Beah

All rights reserved

Published in 2007 by Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following previously published material:

“O.P.P.,” words and music by Vincent Brown, Keir Gist, and Anthony Criss (interpolates elements of “ABC,” by Deke Richards, Frederick Perren, Alphonso Mizell, and Berry Gordy, Jr.), copyright © 1991 by WB Music Corp., Naughty Music, and Jobette Music, Inc. All rights on behalf of itself and Naughty Music administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Beah, Ishmael, 1980–

A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier / by Ishmael Beah.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“Sarah Crichton Books.”

ISBN: 978-0-374-10523-5

1. Beah, Ishmael, 1980–2. Sierra Leone—History—Civil War, 1991—Personal narratives. 3. Sierra Leone—History—Civil War, 1991—Participation, Juvenile—Biography. 4. Child soldiers—Sierra Leone—Biography. 5. Sierra Leone—Social conditions—1961– I. Title.

DT516.828.B43 A3 2007

966.404—dc22

[B]

2006017101

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