- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin (Non-Classics); Auflage: Reprint (1. Januar 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140298444
- ISBN-13: 978-0140298444
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 13 x 1,7 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 961.145 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"While she was in the warehouse S. feared uncertainty. Any kind of certainty seemed preferable to her. Now she was at least rid of that fear. There was no more uncertainty. She was in a storehouse of women, in a room where female bodies were stored for the use of men."
The use of rape as a mode of warfare was one of the atrocities that made "ethnic cleansing" such a horrifying euphemism in the '90s. The number of Muslim rape victims has been hard to establish (estimates are as high as 60,000), and the depths of the damage even more difficult to comprehend. Hidden behind the newspaper accounts--the mind-numbing policy changes, drawn and redrawn borders, and fluctuating statistics--are the stories of what happened to thousands of Muslim women and how they have since dealt with their experience. In S: A Novel About the Balkans, the journalist Slavenka Drakulic uses a fictional everywoman, S., to convey the complex psychological torture of the victims of large-scale, systematic rape during the Bosnian War.
Drakulic's plain, graphic prose is starkly effective; not surprisingly, her book is most powerful in the passages detailing the women's treatment by the cadres of Serbian soldiers. But S. is not just a passive victim: even in such conditions, there are moral choices that must be made and consequences to one's actions. S. discovers this through her "arrangement" with the camp commander, who chooses her for a more elaborate form of rape that involves candlelight dinners and her playing the role of a seductress. Submitting to the fantasy in order to remove herself from the gang rapes of the "women's room," S. refrains from using her new status to improve the lot of the other prisoners. The tradeoff risks the respect of her fellow victims ("You've sold yourself cheap," one of them says to her), and the future psychological cost isn't clear. When she discovers she is pregnant--the father could be any one of a hundred soldiers--she faces another set of difficult decisions. Should she bring a child born of such hate into the world? And should she tell the child about its origins? Or is she instead obliged to tell the truth about the war? "Which is the greater," she wonders, "the right to a father or the right to the truth." Though not overtly political, S. forces us to consider the long-term tragedy of the female victims of the Bosnian War, and is all the more valuable for its inclusion of these gray-area compromises and their painful aftereffects. --John Ponyicsanyi -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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When Serbian forces overrun her village, a young Muslim schoolteacher, S., is taken prisoner and transported to a death camp for Bosnians. At first unable to believe what is happening, S. slowly adapts to life in the camp, trying to ignore the horrors around her. When, however, she is chosen to live in the "Women's Room," in which the more attractive prisoners are kept for the pleasure of Serbian soldiers, her sanity begins to slip, and she finds that she is increasingly uncertain of her identity. Tortured and repeatedly raped, the young woman is eventually released and sent to a refugee camp, pregnant with a child who constantly reminds her of her time as a prisoner. This deeply moving story of courage and renewal shockingly demonstrates the power of war to dehumanize aggressor and victim alike. Drakulic explores the psychology of captivity, documenting the soul's struggle to remember itself despite the body's degradation. Bonnie Johnston
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...I did not find the translation poor. If anything, thetranslator did an amazing job of rendering Serbo-Croatian into Englishin such a way that I would venture to guess that the emotional impactof the original language has been preserved. The writing is sparse. There are few adjectives used and the sentences are short. This makes for a very emotionally tough read--your imagination is forced to deal with the acts taking place. They are not prettified. They are raw. They are powerful. They force you to think about the ugliness that is inflicted upon these women.
What's interesting is that S. makes two choices in this book that others may have had serious problems with. In order not to give anything away, I won't talk about them here, but by making the choices that she does she is able to have some agency over her victimhood.
I have been haunted by this book for days. It will stay with me forever.
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I rate this on a par with A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch and Primo Levy's Survival in Auschwitz. I've just spent 15 minutes trying to elaborate on that praise; I cannot.
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I just wanted to write a review to balance out the 1 star that was given. This book is amazing in it's insight, honesty, and brutal truth about a war most Americans know little about. It's as if the author, a woman and a fine novelist, went through these ordeals first hand or at least had first hand knowledge of the atrocities of the war that was not only waged on the streets and in the countryside but upon bodies and human emotion.
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