تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2004
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reached the school gates. For the next fifteen months he witnesses harrowing scenes of torture as he himself is brutally interrogated, shuttled from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family.
The question of his guilt or ...innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality.'How do i know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks.
Mahmoud Saeed's devastating novel evokes the works of Kafka, Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel in its account of wanton treatment by Saddam Hussein's feared secret police. Narrated in a straightforword manner that makes it all the more vivid, Mustafa's story testifies to the brutal arbitrariness of life under tyranny. إقرأ المزيد