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The twilight zone : a novel / by Fernández, Nona,1971-author.(CARDINAL)815067; Wimmer, Natasha,translator.(CARDINAL)704193;
Entry zone -- Contact zone -- Ghost zone -- Escape zone."It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words "I Tortured People." His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. Like a secret service agent from the future, through extraordinary feats of the imagination, Fernández follows the "man who tortured people" to places that archives can't reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novel's title coexist with the brutal yet commonplace machinations of the regime."--Amazon.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Short stories.; Poetry.; State-sponsored terrorism; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; Torturers;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Torn from the world : a guerrilla's escape from a secret prison in Mexico / by Gibler, John,author.(CARDINAL)353679;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260)."Andrés Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and "disappeared." Tzompaxtle, a young indigenous man and member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information from him. In an effort to buy time to protect his family and comrades, and to keep himself alive, he lead his captors on fruitless journeys to abandoned safe-houses and false rendezvous locations for four months. Finally, faced with imminent execution, he decided to make what he thought was a suicidal attempt at escape; when he miraculously survived, he was able to return underground. Gleaned from years of clandestine interviews, Tzompaxtle's story offers a rare glimpse into chronic injustice, underground resistance movements, and the practice of forced disappearance and torture in contemporary Mexico" --
Subjects: Interviews.; Tzompaxtle Tecpile, Andrés; Ejército Popular Revolucionario (Mexico); Disappeared persons; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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From the Gulag to the killing fields : personal accounts of political violence and repression in communist states / by Hollander, Paul,1932-2019.(CARDINAL)712966;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographies.; Political crimes and offenses; Political persecution; Political violence; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unfinished conquest : the Guatemalan tragedy / by Perera, Victor,1934-2003.(CARDINAL)524083;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Mayas; Indians of Central America; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; Human rights; Human rights.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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La dimensión desconocida / by Fernández, Nona,1971-author.(CARDINAL)815067;
Zona de ingreso -- Zona de contacto -- Zona de fantasmas -- Zona de escape."En plena dictadura chilena, un angustiado hombre llega a las oficinas de una revista de oposición. Es un agente de la policía secreta. Quiero hablar, dice, y una periodista prende su grabadora para escuchar un testimonio que abrirá las puertas de una dimensión hasta entonces desconocida. Siguiendo la hebra de esta escena real, Nona Fernández activa los mecanismos de la imaginación para acceder a aquellos rincones donde la memoria y los archivos no han podido llegar. ... Las historias de La dimensión desconocida, dice la narradora, 'siempre han estado pisándome los talones. Nací con ellas incorporadas en un álbum familiar que no elegí ni organicé.' Como en un episodio de aquella vieja serie televisiva, Nona Fernández construye un relato a partir de la mala conciencia de un personaje insondable, exponiendo e iluminando esa zona de locura y extravío que está mucho más cerca de lo que pensamos y que puede hacer de un ser humano una bestia."--Back cover."In the midst of the Chilean dictatorship, an anguished man arrives at the office of an opposition journal. He is an agent of the secret police. He wants to talk, he says, and a reporter takes her recorder to listen to a testimony that will open the doors to a previously unknown dimension. Following the thread of this real scene, Nona Fernández activates the workings of the imagination to access those corners that memory and archives haven't been able to reach. ... The stories in La dimensión desconocida [The Unknown Dimension], says the narrator, 'have always been right on my heels. I was born with them integrated into a family album that I neither chose nor organized.' Like in an episode of that old television series, Nona Fernández constructs a tale starting from the bad conscience of an unfathomable character, exposing and illuminating that zone of madness and deviance that is much closer than we think and that can make a human being into a beast."--Back cover; cataloger's translation.
Subjects: Novela histórica.; State-sponsored terrorism; Torturers; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Les tombeaux sans noms = [videorecording] Graves without a name / by Rithy Panh,film director,screenwriter,cinematographer,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)680804; Sénémaud, Agnès,screenwriter.; Dussart, Catherine,film producer.; Mésar, Prum,cinematographer.; Marder, Marc,composer (expression); Douc, Randal,narrator.; Anupheap Production (Firm),production company.; ARTE France,production company.(CARDINAL)326939; CDP (Firm),production company.; Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (France),production company.; MEDIA de l'Union Européenne (Firm),production company.;
Cinematographers, Rithy Panh, Prum Mésar ; editor, Rithy Panh ; composer, Marc Marder.Narrator: Randal Douc.Rithy Panh continues his personal and spiritual exploration of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge era. His earlier films, S21 and Duch analyzed the mechanisms of the crime. This film searches for a path to peace. When a thirteen-year-old child, who lost the greater part of his family under the Khmer Rouge, embarks on a search for their graves, what does he find? And above all, what is he looking for?DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Feature films.; Political atrocities; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; Genocide; Party of Democratic Kampuchea.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Condor years : how Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents / by Dinges, John,1941-(CARDINAL)150906;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.The first war on terrorism -- Meeting in Santiago -- Tilting at windmills -- Revolution in the counterrevolution -- Agents in Argentina -- Mission in Paraguay -- The condor system -- "The old man doesn't want to die" -- Death in Argentina -- Green light, red light -- A preventable assassination -- Kissinger and Argentina's "Terrorist problem" -- Ed Koch and Condor's endgame -- The pursuit of justice and U.S. Accountability."The Condor Years is the underground history of the international Dirty Wars by U.S. allies in South America. For much of a decade, six allied governments engaged in secret warfare intended to wipe out their enemies, kidnapping and murdering up to 30,000 people. At the initiative of Chilean president General Augusto Pinochet, and with encouragement from the CIA, they set up a multinational terrorist organization, Operation Condor, to pursue those who escaped to other Latin American countries, Europe, and the United States. John Dinges, using newly-available U.S. documents and the dictatorships' own files, tells this gripping story from the point of view of those who have tried to keep it secret. He dispassionately lays bare the true extent of U.S. complicity in the crimes of the dictators who called the United States "the leader." Revolutionaries, intelligence operatives, and U.S. officials - many speaking for the first time - recount the brutal struggle between Condor and its enemies."--Jacket.
Subjects: Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto.; Operación Cóndor (South American countersubversion association); Chile. Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional.; State-sponsored terrorism; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution / by Slezkine, Yuri,1956-author.(CARDINAL)348420;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 995-1081) and index.Book one. En route -- Part I. Anticipation -- The swamp -- The preachers -- The faith -- Part II. Fulfillment -- The real day -- The last battle -- The new city -- The great disappointment -- The party line -- Book two. At home -- Part III. The second coming -- The eternal house -- The new tenants -- The economic foundations -- The virgin lands -- The ideological substance -- Part IV. The reign of the saints -- The new life -- The days off -- The houses of rest -- The next of kin -- The center of the world -- The pettiness of existence -- The thought of death -- The happy childhood -- The new men -- Book three. On trial -- Part V. The last judgment -- The telephone call -- The admission of guilt -- The valley of the dead -- The knock on the door -- The good people -- The supreme penalty -- Part VI. The afterlife -- The end of childhood -- The persistence of happiness -- The coming of war -- The return -- The end -- Epilogue: The House on the Embankment -- Appendix: Partial list of leaseholders."On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin's purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children's loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 550 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building's residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Dom na Naberezhnoĭ (Moscow, Russia); Communists; Apartment dwellers; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; Apartment houses; Political purges; State-sponsored terrorism;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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The 36th chamber of Shaolin [videorecording] / by Fang, Yihua,1931-; Liu, Chia Hui.; Liu, Jialiang,1934-; Ni, Kuang.(CARDINAL)518924; Shaw, Run Run,Sir,1907-; Wang, Yu,1955-; Wang, Yu,1955-2008; Celestrial Pictures.; Dragon Dynasty (Firm); Genius Products, Inc.(CARDINAL)848882; Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited.; Tian ying yu le you xian gong si.; Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340086;
Cinematographer, Huang Yueh-Tai ; art director, Johnson Tsao ; editors, Chiang Hsing-Loong, Li Yen- Hai; music, Chen Yung-Yu.Liu Chia-Hui, Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Liu Chia-Yung, Hsu Shao-Chiang, Yu Yang, Frankie Wei, Hua Lun, Chen Szu-Chia, Yuan Hsio-Tieng.A young man learns martial arts and how to use his body as well as other weapons to seek revenge on the group that killed his masters.MPAA rating: R.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16 x 9 television; Dolby Digital mono.
Subjects: Adventure films; Feature films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Martial arts films; Motion pictures, Chinese.; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Martial arts films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Shao lin si (Dengfeng Xian, China); Government, Resistance to; Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental; Kung fu; Martial arts; Martial arts; Motion pictures; Political persecution; Revenge; Revolutionaries; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism; Young men; Artes marciales; Venganza; Martial arts; Revenge;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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A massacre in Mexico : the true story behind the missing forty-three students / by Hernández, Anabel,author.(CARDINAL)691211; Washington, John(Translator),translator,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)429785;
"The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up. On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernández reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the "historic truth." State officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of "suspects" who then obliged with full "confessions" that matched the official lie. In the wake of the students' disappearances, protestors in Mexico took up the slogan "Fue el estado"--"It was the state." Hernández's book is the one that gives most precision and credibility to the claim: by following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, she allows to see exactly which parts of the state are responsible for which component of this monumental crime"--
Subjects: Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa; Kidnapping; Mass murder; State-sponsored terrorism; Political persecution; College students; Serial murders; Missing persons; Murder victims; Political corruption; Rural schools; Crime; Disappeared persons; Disappeared persons; Violence; Students; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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