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01920aam a2200385 i 4500 001 40040D66475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200828010432 008 161104t20172017mau 000 1 eng 010 $a 2016050407 020 $a 1566560225 020 $a 9781566560221 035 $a (OCoLC)953440724 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NBO $d III $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ara 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-sy--- 050 00 $a PJ7942 H3435 Q3913 2017 100 1 $a Khalifah, MusÄtÄafa, $e author. 240 10 $a Qawqaah. $l English 245 14 $a The shell : $b memoirs of a hidden observer / $c by Mustafa Khalifa ; translated by Paul Starkey. 264 1 $a Northampton, Massachusetts : $b Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., $c 2017. 300 $a 252 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Translated from the Arabic. 520 $a "...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. 650 0 $a Political prisoners $z Syria $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Christians $z Syria $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Torture $z Syria $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Starkey, Paul, $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042545.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728013045.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170603012120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=40040D66475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search