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My Torturess

My Torturess

Himmich, Bensalem
Allen, Roger

Paperback

Series: Middle East Literature in Translation

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815610475
ISBN13: 9780815610472
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Apr 21 2015
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, Hamuda is extraordinarily rendered to a prison camp in an unknown location where he is interrogated and subjected to various methods of torture.

Narrated through the voice of the young prisoner, the novel unfolds in Hamuda's attempt to record his experience once he is finally released after six years in captivity. He paints an unforgettable portrait of his captors' brutality and the terrifying methods of his primary interrogator, a French woman known as Mama Ghula. With a lucid style, Himmich delivers a visceral tale that explores the moral depths to which humanity is capable of descending and the limits of what the soul can endure.

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