The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons Volume 9

by Lena Constante

Book Overview

Winner, 1992 Association des Ecrivains de Langue Fran?aise Prix Europ?en

"I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 seconds! To live them or to die from them."--from The Silent Escape

Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of "espionage" and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520082095
• ISBN13: 9780520082090
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A powerful prison memoir!

This is the story of a Romanian artist, a young woman who spent eight years out of twelwe in solitary confinment, for the crime of having organized a puppet show together with the wife of a disgraced Communist leader. . . Despite all of that, Lena Constante never lost her dignity or pride. . . One of the most powerful prison memoirs ever written!