The man who snapped his fingers
By: Fariba Hachtroudi ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Alison, translator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781609453060
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Women prisoners; Man-woman relationships; Totalitarianism; Fiction
Work titles: Colonel et l'appât 455
Description: "Winner of the 2001 French Human Rights Prize, French-Iranian author Fariba Hachtroudi's English-language debut explores themes as old as time: the crushing effects of totalitarianism and the infinite power of love. She was known as "Bait 455," the most famous prisoner in a ruthless theological republic. He was one of the colonels closest to the Supreme Commander. When they meet, years later, far from their country of birth, a strange, equivocal relationship develops between them. Both their shared past of suffering and old romantic passions come rushing back accompanied by recollections of the perverse logic of violence that dominated the dictatorship under which they lived. The Man Who Snapped His Fingers is a novel of ideas, exploring power and memory by an important female writer from a part of the world where female voices are routinely silenced."--Provided by Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation from French of:  Colonel et l'appât 455.

Original published as Le colonel et l'appât 455 in 2014.