Booktrade unfazed by newspaper’s attack on boy soldier memoir

Monday, 11 February 2008 Books+Publishing

Continuing efforts by the Australian newspaper to discredit former boy soldier Ishmael Beah appear to have fallen flat, with customers continuing to purchase his memoir, A Long Way Gone (HarperCollins).While acknowledging that Beah ‘clearly went through a terrible ordeal' during Sierra Leone's Civil War, the newspaper has alleged that he was 15, not...