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An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

´A kind of dark masterpiece´ THE NEW YORK TIMES

´There has never been a book quite like this´ NEW STATESMAN

In 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In 2016, having never been charged with any crime, he has finally been approved for release.

In those fourteen years in captivity he suffered unspeakable abuse - sexual assault, threats to his family and months of sensory deprivation, his captors torturing him with the personal approval of the US Secretary of Defense - and he produced this remarkable document, the only first-hand account of a Guantanamo Detainee.

His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir - terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. It is an extraordinary and moving story of human perseverance stretched to its limits, but never broken.

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A vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka JOHN LE CARRÉ

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Larry Siems directed the Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center, where he led PEN´s ongoing efforts to defend writers facing persecution around the world and protect freedom of expression in the US. He left at the end of 2013 to concentrate on editing Slahi´s memoir. He is the author of The Torture Reportand is a poet and non-fiction writer.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born in Mauritania in 1970. He earned a scholarship to study engineering in Germany when he was 18, and lived and worked in Germany and briefly in Canada before returning to Mauritania in 2000. He has been detained in Guantánamo Bay since August 2002.

Larry Siems directed the Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center, where he led PEN´s ongoing efforts to defend writers facing persecution around the world and protect freedom of expression in the US. He left at the end of 2013 to concentrate on editing Slahi´s memoir. He is the author of The Torture Report and is a poet and non-fiction writer.

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