The Dissident - Nell Freudenberger
(Hey, it's been a little quiet around here lately but let's kick off the Fall Book Season with a guest review by longtime Chinese human rights activist Joseph Chang!)
My goodness, what an amazing novel. A lot of people have been saying that this is just another unreadable book by a good-looking Ivy-League grad but they're wrong. I don't know how she did it but Nell Freudenberger has captured the quintessential essence of being a political prisoner under a totalitarian dictatorship. (And they say you can't research a book only using the Internet these days. Umph!) And moreover, take a look at a recent PR photo of the author:
See? If you were undergoing days and weeks of electro-shock torture, wouldn't this sustain you in your hour of need? Let me tell you. A hard-cover edition of The Dissident retails at $25.95, which is about three years wages at the prison labor camp where I was sent after Tiananmen Square, but without a doubt, this book would be worth every 18-hour-day I suffered making headlights for General Motors. Yes, God Bless You, Nell Freudenberger, and keep up the good fight.
My goodness, what an amazing novel. A lot of people have been saying that this is just another unreadable book by a good-looking Ivy-League grad but they're wrong. I don't know how she did it but Nell Freudenberger has captured the quintessential essence of being a political prisoner under a totalitarian dictatorship. (And they say you can't research a book only using the Internet these days. Umph!) And moreover, take a look at a recent PR photo of the author:
See? If you were undergoing days and weeks of electro-shock torture, wouldn't this sustain you in your hour of need? Let me tell you. A hard-cover edition of The Dissident retails at $25.95, which is about three years wages at the prison labor camp where I was sent after Tiananmen Square, but without a doubt, this book would be worth every 18-hour-day I suffered making headlights for General Motors. Yes, God Bless You, Nell Freudenberger, and keep up the good fight.
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