Writers at Risk

Kuvaus
This list is meant as a help for the theme "Writers at risk", Reading Globally, 2nd quarter 2016. I will add the link to the thread after I create it.
1
tekijä: J. G. Ballard
3,717 jäsentä
70 arvostelua
4
Global Rank 6
4 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M, rileyhuff
Selitykset
ELiz_M: An autobiographical novel of the author's experience in a Japanese prison camp as a young boy during WWII.
2
67 jäsentä
1 arvostelu
½ 2.5
Global Rank 79
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: An account of the writer's arrest and trial, his prison dreams and fantasies.
3
1,331 jäsentä
34 arvostelua
3.8
Global Rank 21
2 Members
thorold, ELiz_M
4
1,583 jäsentä
35 arvostelua
4.2
Global Rank 35
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: A collection of short stories loosely based on the author's experiences in various concentration camps.
5
1,042 jäsentä
35 arvostelua
3.9
Global Rank 8
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: A novel depicting the brutal, oppressive life of a Egyptian village girl. It was inspired by the author's contact with an imprisoned woman. Almost a decade later, the author herself was imprisoned and terrorized for her ongoing feminist activism.
6
194 jäsentä
6 arvostelua
3.2
Global Rank 65
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: The main character, like the author, was a victim of China's "anti-rightest movement" in the mid-1950s. The novel depicts the banal brutality of the political system.
7
342 jäsentä
10 arvostelua
3.8
Global Rank 11
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: The author fled the violence tearing Yugoslavia apart in 1993. This novel is an attempt "to capture the slow and constant sense of loss and displacement caused by exile..."
8
tekijä: Brendan Behan
944 jäsentä
17 arvostelua
4
Global Rank 43
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: from wiki: Behan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and he was also imprisoned in Republic of Ireland.
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tekijä: Anna Seghers
656 jäsentä
18 arvostelua
3.8
Global Rank 9
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: "one of the greatest treatments of flight and exile in modern German writing...." written during the author's own flight from the Nazis.
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tekijä: Mary Prince
385 jäsentä
5 arvostelua
½ 3.5
Global Rank 58
Member
ELiz_M
Selitykset
ELiz_M: The first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies (West Indies) and publish a record of her experience.