{"product_id":"the-silent-escape-three-thousand-days-in-romanian-prisons-volume-9-hardcover","title":"The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons Volume 9 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLena Constante\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFranklin Philip\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eGail Kligman\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 1992 Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française Prix Européen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 seconds! To live them or to die from them.\"--from \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Escape\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of \"espionage\" and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian prisons. \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Escape\u003c\/i\u003e is the extraordinary account of the first eight years of her incarceration--years of solitary confinement during which she was tortured, starved, and daily humiliated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The only woman to have endured isolation so long in Romanian jails, Constante is also one of the few women political prisoners to have written about her ordeal. Unlike other more political prison diaries, this book draws us into the practical and emotional experiences of everyday prison life. Candidly, eloquently, Constante describes the physical and psychological abuses that were the common lot of communist-state political prisoners. She also recounts the particular humiliations she suffered as a woman, including that of male guards watching her in the bathroom. Constante survived by escaping into her mind--and finally by discovering the \"language of the walls,\" which enabled her to communicate with other female inmates. A powerful story of totalitarianism and human endurance, this work makes an important contribution to the literature of \"prison notebooks.\"\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA heartbreaking, human document . . . that ranks comparably to Eugenia Ginzburg's \u003ci\u003eIn the Whirlwind\u003c\/i\u003e and Nadezhda Mandelstam's \u003ci\u003eHope Against Hope\u003c\/i\u003e.--Vladimir Tismaneanu, author of \u003ci\u003eReinventing Politics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A superb book. Without ever lapsing into self-pity, it allows the reader to enter the nightmarishly vindictive Romanian political prison system.\"--Daniel Chirot, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLena Constante \u003c\/b\u003e(1909-2005) was\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ea Romanian artist, essayist, and memoirist. She won the Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française's 1992 Prix Européen for this book's French edition. \u003cb\u003eFranklin Philip\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance translator living in Boston. \u003cb\u003eGail Kligman\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 257\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.4 x 6.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751401423136,"sku":"9780520082090","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a46d5c4e2cb8ba984c9c99b1d72725f2.webp?v=1779972323","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-silent-escape-three-thousand-days-in-romanian-prisons-volume-9-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}