Edité par King Penguin / Penguin Books, 1987
ISBN 10 : 0140097732 ISBN 13 : 9780140097733
Vendeur : Karen Wickliff - Books, Columbus, OH, Etats-Unis
Soft Cover. Etat : Good+. 116pp. trade paperback, paper has turned light brown, ink mark on bottom page edge, novel, a priest sorts scrapes of paper from a prison to learn the fate of a Susanna, young woman from his parish who was kidnapped, put in prison and tortured; the author is a human rights advocate, he used testimony from victims of repression to describe conditions in Argentina prisons,
Edité par Random House, New York, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394549171 ISBN 13 : 9780394549170
Vendeur : Any Amount of Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
8vo. pp 98. Original publisher's burgundy cloth over cream boards, lettered gilt on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "For John, with affection, Omar." ISBN: 0394549171 Fine in fine dust jacket.
Edité par Random House, New York, 1986
ISBN 10 : 0394549171 ISBN 13 : 9780394549170
Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. John Sposato (Jacket art) (illustrateur). First Edition [stated]. [10], 116, [2] pages. Translated from the Spanish. Inscription by the author (in Spanish) on the front free endpaper. DJ has some edge creasing. Omar Rivabella is an Argentinean writer and journalist. A strong advocate of human rights, he is the author of several essays and short stories published in Latin America. Between 1980 and 1983, he wrote three weekly columns for El Diario in New York City. His articles have also appeared in several American publications. In a backwater town in an unnamed Latin American country, a priest comes upon the harrowing diary of a young woman who has been brutally abducted one day out of the blue by military authorities. Although she has been charged with no crime, she is sexually abused, psychologically and physically tortured as the puzzle of her life--of her relations to her family, friends, the government--is pieced together. Everything in this book, though in the guise of fiction, is true. Derived from a review by Allen Boyer found on-line: Victim for victim, the holocaust that swept across Argentina during the 1970s echoed the Nazi holocaust. What the Argentina terror lacked in scope, it made up in cruelty; the death squads who worked out of Argentina's barracks and police stations had the leisure to indulge every sadistic whim. "Requiem for a Woman's Soul" follows one victim into this hell. The book draws on interviews with women who suffered under political repression. Their stories are shocking. "Requiem" unfolds as a diary within a diary. One morning after Mass, Father Antonio records in his journal, he is handed a cardboard box. Inside are countless scraps of paper, which he gradually pieces together into the prison diary of a young woman named Susana. The diary tells how she was arrested, shackled to a prison cot, tortured, interrogated and raped. Its underlying facts are harrowing, with scene after scene of brutality. This book is compelling not just because it deals with a tragedy.