The Good Listener
eBook - ePub

The Good Listener

Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty

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eBook - ePub

The Good Listener

Helen Bamber: A Life Against Cruelty

About this book

'Essential reading... A horrifying account of the worst that human beings can do to each other. Neil Belton's synthesis of biography and history is masterly.' Anthony Storr, Sunday Times

Helen Bamber went to Belson in 1945 to work with survivors of the camp. She was just twenty. Since then her life has been involved with the worst side of the last half-century. In 1985, at the age of sixty, she set up an organisation devoted to helping victims of torture and to bearing witness against the fact of torture. This is her story. It is also a haunting unusual narrative of the post-war world. This 2012 edition offers a new introduction by the author.

'The story of Bamber's life acts as a framework or prism through which some of the worst events of this century of horrors are addressed.' Times Literary Supplement

'[Belton] writes beautifully about an ugly subject... with compassion but also with clarity.' Scotsman

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571295272
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. PREFACE TO THE 2012 EDITION
  7. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  8. 1 : THE LIBERTIES OF BERWICK
  9. 2 : THE JIGSAW
  10. 3 : GRIT IN THE WHEEL
  11. 4 : THE DISCIPLINE OF LOVE
  12. 5 : A STORM FROM PARADISE
  13. 6 : TAKING HISTORIES
  14. 7 : POOR GHOST
  15. 8 : LEARNED ON THE BODY
  16. 9 : REMAKING THE WORLD
  17. REFERENCES
  18. PERMISSIONS
  19. INDEX
  20. Copyright