|
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jacobo Timerman
Creators: Arthur Miller, Ilan Stavans, Toby Talbot
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
Buy Used: $11.66
You Save: $6.29 (35%)
New (23) Used (16) from $11.66
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 203580
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0299182444
Dewey Decimal Number: 365.45092
EAN: 9780299182441
ASIN: 0299182444
Publication Date: August 30, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Standard used condition.
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Americas, Ilan Stavans, Series Editor Winner of a 1982 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Selected by the New York Times for "Books of the Century" With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans and a new foreword by Arthur Miller.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Excellent March 31, 2000
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
Excellent analysis of the methodology behind totalitarian regimes, with emphasis on the persecution of Jews. Personally the most redeeming part I found in this book was Timerman's personal methods to cope with the traumatic torture, and, most applicable to myself, an existence without tenderness and love. His words ring loud and true, his advice is sound, sound, sound.
Excellent analysis of the totalitarian mindset June 5, 2001
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Jacobo Timerman has written a gripping and terrifying account of his experiences at the mercy of Argentina's Peronist regime of the late 70's. A well respected, professional journalist in Buenos Aires, he was editor of the major newspaper La Opinion until he was kidnapped by the military for publishing articles critical of their terrorist tactics. He details how as a political prisoner, and more signifigantly as a Jew, he was held and tortured by a military carried away by their own delusions and rationalizations of violence - and by their virulent anti-semitism. Timerman displays a penetrating insight into the mindset of his captors and of a society that tried to ignore what was happening. A must read.
 Que triste, Lo mismo ahora July 17, 2002
Steve S (West Hartford, CT United States)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Este libro es un resumen de un pais de tristeza. Anarchia, luchas, gobiernos coruptos, y la militaria- es lo mismo ahora en este pais bella y riqueza. Los maleducados hay un nivel de estupidez - ellos solo quieren el pavo, el dinero - la renta sin pensar de la gente. Tienes que leer este libro!
Siempre la misma pregunta May 3, 2006
Boom Fiend (North Carolina, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I won't give a synopsis of the book b/c everyone else has already done that for you. What I can say about this book is that it is an impetus. After you read it, you'll most likely be hungry for more information about this brutal time in a seemingly well-developed country. Questions to consider: Why the silence of the press, with the exception of Timerman's newspaper 'La Opinion' and the 'B.A. Herald?' How could someone treated so horribly come out of it okay? Why did this happen after Pinochet's regime and the Nazi regime? This is post WWII, so why? Where was the rest of the world? The book is splendid, the first chapter gut-wrenching and beautiful. You will love it as much as Elie Wiesel's 'Night.'
Harrowing November 12, 2006
Unutterable (New York, NY USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 (and horrifying, since it's nonfiction) way. I wish this were requiring reading in schools.
|
|
|
|
| |
