The shell
Subtitle: memoirs of a hidden observer
By: by Mustafa Khalifa ; translated by Paul Starkey
Contributors: Starkey, Paul, 1947- translator
Publisher: Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781566560221
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Political prisoners; Christians; Torture; Fiction
Work titles: Qawqaʻah
Description: "...a Syrian political prisoner of conscience, an atheist mistaken for a radical Islamist - the worst kind of enemy of the state - who was locked up for 14 years without a trial. Shunned by his fellow inmates, Musa remains silent and mostly unspoken-to for the duration of his incarceration. A young film school graduate at the start, he is a defiant and stoic narrator, somehow able to pick out humor and irony in the shocking events and the characters he describes. Yet even the strongest personality cannot hold out under such brutal conditions forever..." - back cover.
Notes: Translated from the Arabic.

In English, translated from the Arabic.