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portada The six Pointed Star
Type
Physical Book
Author
Translated by
Preface by
Publisher
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
124
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.6 x 14.0 x 0.8 cm
Weight
0.17 kg.
ISBN13
9780717808359
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The six Pointed Star

Manuel Tiago (Author) · Eric Gordon (Translated by, Preface by) · International Publishers · Paperback

The six Pointed Star - Tiago, Manuel ; Gordon, Eric ; Gordon, Eric

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Synopsis "The six Pointed Star "

Manuel Tiago derived much of his material for this book about prison life from the years he spent in detention for his political views during the era of Portuguese fascism. There are three "political" prisoners in this novelistic mémoire, but mostly we meet men convicted for other types of crimes, many of them violent. But in a backward, repressive society, is stealing food for the poor or trying to demand justice for your fellow workers truly a crime? Many writers have applied their gritty realism to the subject of prison, again, some from personal experience. The Six-Pointed Star, now available to an English-language readership, joins the select company of great books on this theme.The author opens and closes his account on the outside of the prison. On almost every page, he tells stories, some tragic, some even with elements of humor, showing that life on the inside mirrors that on the outside. All the human qualities, both positive and negative, that we see there, we also see here.In this composite tapestry of a place, a time, and a shifting population of 500 men, almost any reader will be able to identify moments in their own lives when they were just this far away from committing a crime, or wanting to, and ending up as these men did. However many reasons there may be why people commit crimes, even heinous ones, prison does not cancel a person's humanity. That may be in itself the single most important "message" this book communicates.

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