Next, an interview with ishmael beah from book of america on his book on the radiance of tomorrow. This is about 15 minutes. On your screen is ishmael beah, author of a long way gone. The second book is coming out, mr. Beah. Why did you choose to make it a novel . First of all, i wanted to depart from the memoirs and nonfiction. Second, the issues i read about in the new book, radiance of tomorrow, its about a lot of people. Experiences going home after war another people six euros, so it is composite of the tanks. I want to have the freedom to play around with words and images. What kind of freedom is writing a novel gave you rather than nonfiction . With the novel, for me particularly theres room to play with language more than to actually maybe extend the recurrence is. You know, expand them more and traumatize them a little more. They were also in the same time. The runaway coming to us whatever they wanted they wanted to do was this novel i talk about things that existed before th