Gulbahar’s memoir is an indispensable account, which makes vivid the stench of fearful sweat in the cells, the newly built prison’s permanent reek of white paint. It closely corresponds with other witness statements, giving every indication of being very reliable. Most impressive is her psychological honesty.
... viscerally affecting ... In this urgent and eloquent narrative, the author fashions harrowing depictions of daily humiliations at the camps ... A taut, moving, powerful account of an ongoing human rights disaster.
... rousing and courageous ... Haitiwaji’s forthright descriptions of her harrowing experience at a modern-day concentration camp—before she was released in 2019 with the help of her daughter—offers a sobering look at the horrific ways genocide is still being enacted today. This urgent testimony will serve as a wake-up call to Western readers.
