THE AMERICAS: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (Paperback)

from banjo123

I read this book for the Global Reading theme of writers at risk. Timerman was a journalist in Argentina during the 70's and was imprisoned and tortured during the dirty war. He is a good writer, and the descriptions of his experiences are harrowing. He intersperses descriptions of his imprisonme...

from Grandeplease

This is a disturbing autobiography by a journalist who is unlawfully arrested by a military junta who imprisons, tortures and isolates him. Disturbing, very disturbing.

from RussellBittner

It may sound like a bit of hyperbole to compare the Argentina of 1966 – 1980* with present-day North Korea — which I imagine to be the closest thing we have to hell on Earth. But after reading Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner without a name, Cell without a number, I'll risk it. * N. B.: Never mind tha...

from giovannigf

One of the most harrowing books I've ever read. An amazing entreaty against violence of both the left and the right, and a heartbreaking analysis of contemporary anti-Semitism. Comparable at some points perhaps to Koestler's Darkness at Noon, except that it deals with torture in a more direct (an...

from RussellBittner

It may sound like a bit of hyperbole to compare the Argentina of 1966 – 1980* with present-day North Korea — which I imagine to be the closest thing we have to hell on Earth. But after reading Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner without a name, Cell without a number, I'll risk it. * N. B.: Never mind tha...