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By: Slavenka DrakuliceBook Publisher: Penguin
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""S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . .The writing is taut, precise, and masterful."" Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child-one without a country, a name, a father, or a language. Its birth only reminds her of an even more grueling experience: being repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in the ""women's room"" of a prison camp. Through a series of flashbacks, S. relives the unspeakable crimes she has endured, and in telling her story-timely, strangely compelling, and ultimately about survival-depicts the darkest side of human nature during wartime.
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| Title of Suspense & Thrillers eBook: S. | |
| Release Date: 01-01-2001 | |
| Publisher: Penguin |
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| Parent title | S. |
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| SKU | 9781440678851 |
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S.
Chapter One
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm
27 MARCH 1993
The child is lying naked in his cot. He is stretched out on a sheet, perfectly still, his arms and legs splayed, like someone surrendering.
S. sees the little fingers with their tiny real-life nails. The child's head is turned to the side. He is asleep and in his slumber he sucks in his little lips and his eyes move rapidly under their translucent lids. He has long, dark eyelashes. His thatch of dark hair is sticky with sweat. His breathing is rapid and rhythmic, his little tummy rising and falling, up and down, up and down. A shred of gauze quivers on what is left of his umbilical cord. His pink, dry skin is almost purple around the knees and in the folds of his neck. His little feet stick up into the air, motionless.
Observing him from the side like that, he looks dead and S. quickly turns her head away.
This is supposed to be her son. She gave birth to him that afternoon at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. But to her this is simply a nameless little being who after nine months has come out of her body. Nothing connects them anymore. S. feels relieved at the thought. She is free. Her entire past has spilled out of her body with this child. She feels so light, as if she could get up this very moment and walk away.
She is not alone in the room. Maj occupies the other bed. The woman turns to her and says, my name is Maj. S. does not reply. Maj is nursing her baby. She has enormous white breasts and as
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