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A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers
During the past fifteen years, one of the most vexing issues facing fledgling transitional democracies around the world-from South Africa to Eastern Europe, from Cambodia to Bosnia-has been what to do about the still-toxic security apparatuses left over from the previous regime. In this now-classic and profoundly influential study, the "New Yorker" 's Lawrence Weschler probes these dilemmas across two gripping narratives (set in Brazil and Uruguay, among the first places to face such concerns), true-life thrillers in which torture victims, faced with the paralysis of the new regime, themselves band together to settle accounts with their former tormentors.
"Disturbing and often enthralling."-- "New York Times Book Review"
"Extraordinarily moving. . . . Weschler writes brilliantly."-- "Newsday"
"Implausible, intricate and dazzling."-- "Times Literary Supplement"
"As Weschler's interviewees told their tales, I paced agitatedly, choked back tears. . . . Weschler narrates these two episodes with skill and tact. . . . An inspiring book."--George Scialabba, "Los Angeles Weekly"
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: Jul 1st, 1998
- Pages: 322
- Language: English
- Edition: Univ of Chicago - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.26in - 0.71in - 0.74lb
- EAN: 9780226893945
- Categories: • International Relations - General• History & Theory - General• Latin America - South America
About the Author
Weschler, Lawrence: - A widely honored journalist, Lawrence Weschler is the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He is the author of twelve books, including Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Vermeer in Bosnia, and, most recently, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences.