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"A heartbreaking, human document . . . that ranks comparably to Eugenia Ginzburg's "In the Whirlwind and Nadezhda Mandelstam's "Hope Against Hope."--Vladimir Tismaneanu, author of "Reinventing Politics"A superb book. Without ever lapsing into self-pity, it allows the reader to enter the nightmarishly vindictive Romanian political prison system."--Daniel Chirot, author of "The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe