My Torturess

In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being

involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, Hamuda is

"extraordinarily rendered" to a prison camp in an unknown location where he

is interrogated and subjected to various methods of torture.

Narrated through the voice of the young prisoner, the novel unfolds in

Hamuda s attempt to record his experience once he is finally released after six

years in captivity. He paints an unforgettable portrait of his captors brutality

and the terrifying methods of his primary interrogator, a French woman known

as Mama Ghula. With a lucid style, Himmich delivers a visceral tale that explores

the moral depths to which humanity is capable of descending and the

limits of what the soul can endure.

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