Title: Other Colors: Essays and a Story Author: Orhan Pamuk Note: I’ve read most of the essays on this book, but not every single one of them. Other Colors is a collection of non-fiction pieces and a story by the Turkish Nobel laureate, Orhan Pamuk. The book is mainly composed of literature, politics, and [...]
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Other Colors: Essays and a Story – Orhan Pamuk
Posted in book review, books, tagged book review, essays, literature, nonfiction, Orhan Pamuk on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Slave Ship – Marcus Rediker
Posted in books, tagged nonfiction, slave ship, slavery on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Slave Ship, by Marcus Rediker, is a very interesting human history of the ships that used to transport slaves from African regions to Europe. This book focuses on the ship in which slaves were transported, which people tend not to focus on. Slaves were treated with terror in the ship, and various forms of [...]
Escape from Slavery – Francis Bok
Posted in book review, tagged Francis Bok, modern slavery, nonfiction, slavery, Sudan on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the book Escape from Slavery, Francis Bok tells the story of his abduction from his Dinka village by militiamen and his 10-year enslavement. As a slave, he had to do hard labor, eat rotten food, and get frequently beaten by his owner, Giema Abdullah, and his children, in addition to receiving death threats from [...]
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