Miracle, a Universe Settling Accounts with Torturers

Name: Miracle, a Universe Settling Accounts with Torturers
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ISBN: 9780226893945

ISBN-10: 0226893944

ISBN-13: 9780226893945

Edition: 1998

Authors: Lawrence Weschler

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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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword



A Miracle, A Universe



The Reality of the World


Afterword


Notes 1998


Postscript


References


Index