Jacobo TimermanVezi magazinul Libris- 2 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi
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.
