The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer

The work of a modern-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime.

This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of conscience—an atheist mistaken for a radical Islamist—who was locked up for 13 years without trial in one of the most notorious prisons in the Middle East. The novel takes the form of a diary which Musa keeps in his head and then writes down upon his release. In Tadmur prison, the mood is natur...