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...enjoyed little freedom, at least not since 1985, when she ran afoul of Uday, Saddam Hussein's barbaric eldest son. A criminal lawyer, Nouman had the temerity to defend a man Uday wanted punished for insulting his girlfriend, and Nouman paid for it with nearly two decades' worth of torment. In prison, she endured rape, beatings and unspeakable torture. In the hospital, she was subjected to countless sessions of shock therapy and powerful sedatives. Along the way, her mind became unhinged, her memories scrambled and her face frozen in a mask of permanent terror. "They have turned me into...
...book's backdrop?the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during the war?is familiar material. But Otsuka, through various devices such as the use of characters without names, manages to make universal the psychological torment of wartime prejudice without wallowing in sentimentality. Starting with the arrest of the father of the clan in a midnight FBI raid, Otsuka spins out the story from the perspective of each family member. First, the characters lose their freedom as they are trucked off to a camp in desolate Utah. Ultimately, they lose their identity, returning to their vandalized home...
Such is the torment I must endure every time I see pilgrims who look just like me. This is beyond the coincidence that your roommate looks just like Scarlet O’Hara, because unlike your no-talent ass-clown of a roommate I have a deeper connection. I was born on Thanksgiving. My mother’s belly button popped like a meat-timer and when she was sliced open like a plump turkey, I emerged, a most uncommon stuffing...
Subversive and strong, Infiltrate unleashes a diary of torment and frustration upon the world. Be warned, excessive exposure to the contents on the disc may dampen one’s mood...
Forced marriages. Baby drownings. Rapes. Anyone who has followed the history of Chinese women cannot help but be touched by woeful tales of indignity, torment?even torture?that innocent daughters, wives and mothers have suffered. Consider the story of Hongxue, a bright girl whose father began sexually abusing her at age 11, and who then repeatedly injured herself in hope of stopping the assaults. After several episodes of incest followed by long hospital stays, she effectively committed suicide by rubbing a dead insect into her self-inflicted wounds, eventually succumbing to a fatal infection...