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Author | : Fāḍil ʻAzzāwī |
Publisher | : American Univ in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789774161421 |
Being plucked from a Baghdad café and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for Aziz, the novel's hero and narrator, a young man who has been living on automatic pilot--as if he were a guest visiting his own life--and he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed world we inhabit and shape. Although never charged with any offense, he must adjust to a lengthy stay in prison, where he is befriended by Salam the yard boss, Mun'im an idealistic university student with a beautiful sister named Salwa, Yusuf an idealist dispatched to the 'Swamp, ' Salman an anarchist schoolteacher, and Mustafa an aged farmer who dreams of an alternative society. While these imprisoned revolutionaries teach Aziz to dream that an ideal city with his name on it may lie just over the horizon, the police supervisor encourages him to think of a simple crime to which he can confess so he can be charged and eventually released. Based on the author's own incarceration in Iraq, Cell Block Five is a clear-headed, good-humored tribute to the prison's men--both the inmates and the guards--and an indictment of man's gratuitous inhumanity to man, pointing out that the transition from abused to abuser, tortured to torturer, can be an easy one. Written in 1971 and published outside Iraq in 1972, Cell Block Five--the first Iraqi prison novel--was later made into a feature film in Syria. Drawing the reader subtly into the political section of an Iraqi prison, this compelling story easily transcends cultural boundaries.
Author | : L. D. Webb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780983978527 |
This is the riveting true tale of a small town boy who grew up lusting for power and respect. After Richard Holmes got mixed up in the drug world, everything in his life spun out of control. In September 1987, a drug raid at Richard's home led to the disappearance of a police informant. People throughout Idaho and across the nation were stunned and outraged as the facts in the case began to come out. Conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder were some of the charges Richard Holmes was facing when he was tormented and stabbed to death in an Idaho State Correctional facility. All the while, guards stood outside watching and listening as commanding officials told them to stand down.
Author | : Ghostface Killah |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2009-07-29 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 0446550930 |
Read the thrilling novel as a heavyweight champion is framed for a murder he didn't commit and now he finds himself being transformed into something not-quite-so-human. To his fans, Cole Dennis is a heavyweight contender with a devastating right hook. To a city being held hostage to chaos and terror, Dennis has a grit and charisma that make him the shining hope for justice--until he is arrested for a brutal murder. Framed for a crime he did not commit, he finds himself captive in a foreboding high-tech superprison whose masters secretly conspire to turn inmates into tomorrow's most terrifying bioweapons--with Cole Dennis as the intended prize specimen. But Dennis is nobody's lab rat. Reborn as a towering engine of destruction, Dennis will prepare for the fight of his life. He will rename himself Ghostface Killah. And his cry of righteous rage will echo beyond the cold steel walls of Cell Block Z.
Author | : Freya Barker |
Publisher | : Freya Barker |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1988733464 |
They didn’t know each other, but the events of one single day heralded a pivotal change that would alter their lives forever. Almost two decades spent locked away in a dark, dank cell, Gray Bennet isn’t used to the sun, the sounds, the scents. It’s overwhelming. Each year Robin Bishop returns, and while everyone around her is solemn, she lifts her face to the sun and celebrates her freedom. It’s liberating. He sees her. She stands out in the grieving crowd—her head thrown back, her face bright with contentment—like a beacon offering to guide him into the light.
Author | : Hilary Kingsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781852831134 |
Interviews with the cast of Prisoner Cell Block H, character profiles, photographs and comments from celebrities who are viewers, are all included in this inside view of the Australian soap opera.
Author | : Tabatha Dallas |
Publisher | : Tabatha Dallas |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2017-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Phyllis Kornfeld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1997-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691029764 |
Filled with quotes from men and women prisoners and Kornfeld's own anecdotes, Cellblock Visions shows how these artists, most of them having no previous training, turn to their work for a sense of self-worth, an opportunity to vent rage, or a way to find peace. We see how the artists deal with the cramped space, limited light, and narrow vistas of their prison studios, and how the security bans on many art supplies lead them to ingenious resourcefulness, as in extracting color from shampoo and weaving with cigarette wrappers. Kornfeld covers the traditional prison arts, such as soap carving and tattoo, and devotes a major section to painting, where we see miniatures depicting themes of alienation and escape, idyllic landscapes framed by bars, portraits of women living in a fantasy world, large canvasses filled with erotic and religious symbolism and violent action. The brief, vivid biographies of each artist portray that individual's experience of crime, prison, and art itself.
Author | : Francesca Lia Block |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2009-06-16 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061862053 |
The Weetzie Bat series, by acclaimed author Francesca Lia Block, was listed among NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels. This collection brings together all five luminous novels of the series in one. Spinning a saga of interwoven lives and beating hearts, these postmodern fairy tales take us to a Los Angeles brimming with magical realism: a place where life is a mystery, pain can lead to poetry, strangers become intertwined souls, and everyone is searching for the most beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love. The Weetzie Bat books broke new ground with their stylized, lyrical prose and unflinching look at the inner life of teens. The New York Times declared Dangerous Angels was "transcendent." And the Village Voice proclaimed "Ms. Block writes for the young adult in all of us." Includes Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop.
Author | : Cullen Thomas |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-02-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780143113119 |
Cullen Thomas was just like the thousands of other American kids who travel abroad after college. He was hungry for meaning and excitement beyond a nine-to-five routine, so he set off for Seoul, South Korea, to teach English and look for adventure. What he got was a three-and-a- half-year drug-crime sentence in South Korea's prisons, where the physical toll of life in a cell was coupled with the mental anguish of maintaining sanity in a world that couldn't have been more foreign. This is Thomas's unvarnished account of his eye-opening, ultimately life-affirming experience. Brother One Cell is part cautionary tale, part prison memoir, and part insightful travelogue that will appeal to a wide readership, from concerned parents to armchair adventurers.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cells |
ISBN | : 9780815332183 |