Books Behind Bars
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Kalakuta Republic
Chris Abani was first arrested in 1985 after a paranoid Nigerian government mistook his first novel, Masters of the Board, about a neo-Nazi ... See details
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This Blinding Absence of Light
Tahar Ben Jelloun’s ‘non-fiction novel’ was described by Eileen Battersby in the Irish Times as ‘one of the most beautiful, humbling and imp... See details
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The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork, described by Stephen Spender as ‘the ferocious testimony of a man of genius’, is a mosaic made up of the memories and wr... See details
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The Pisan Cantos
After the Second World War, Modernist poet Ezra Pound’s Fascist sympathies led to his imprisonment in an American detention centre on the outskirts... See details
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The Political Prisoner
In 1935 Cesare Pavese was arrested for anti-government activities. Like Carlo Levi, who described his experiences in the classic Christ Stopped ... See details