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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Jacobo Timerman author Toby Talbot translator Ilan Stavans editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Published:20th Aug '02

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This paperback, "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number" from Ilan Stavans, Jacobo Timerman & Toby Talbot, was published 20th August 2002 by University of Wisconsin Press.

“At two in the morning of April 15, 1977, twenty armed men in civilian clothes arrested Jacobo Timerman, editor and publisher of a leading Buenos Aires newspaper. Thus began thirty months of imprisonment, torture, and anti-Semitic abuse. . . . Unlike 15,000 other Argentines, ‘the disappeared,’ Timerman was eventually released into exile. His testimony [is] gripping in its human stories, not only of brutality but of courage and love; important because it reminds us how, in our world, the most terrible fantasies may become fact.”—New York Times, Books of the Century|“It ranks with Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in its examination of the totalitarian mind, the role of anti-Semitism, the silence.”—Eliot Fremont-Smith, Village Voice|“It is impossible to read this proud and piercing account of [Timerman’s] suffering and his battles without wanting to be counted as one of Timerman’s friends.”—Michael Walzer, New York Review of Books|“Timerman was a living reminder that real prophets are irritants and not messengers of reassurance. He told it like it is, whether in Argentina, Israel, Europe, or the United States.”—Arthur Miller

ISBN: 9780299182441

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm

Weight: 333g

184 pages