The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons Volume 9
(Part of the Society and Culture in East-Central Europe Series)
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Winner, 1992 Association des Ecrivains de Langue Fran?aise Prix Europ?en "I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 seconds! To live them or to die from them."--from The Silent Escape Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of "espionage" and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520082095
ISBN13:9780520082090
Release Date:April 1995
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:257 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"
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A powerful prison memoir!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This is the story of a Romanian artist, a young woman who spent eight years out of twelwe in solitary confinment, for the crime of having organized a puppet show together with the wife of a disgraced Communist leader. . . Despite all of that, Lena Constante never lost her dignity or pride. . . One of the most powerful prison memoirs ever written!
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