The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
2022 Peterson Literary Prize finalist
Світлий Шлях. Історія одного концтабору
[The Torture Camp on Paradise Street]
Author: Stanislav Aseyev
Publisher: Видавництво Старого Лева [The Old Lion Publishing House]
Country: Ukraine
Language: Ukrainian
Abducted by Russian security forces in 2017, journalist Stanislav Aseyev survived the hell of imprisonment in a concentration camp operated by Russia’s military proxies in eastern Ukraine. This intense book recounts the author’s mental and physical struggle to survive imprisonment in a camp where horrific torture was employed to destroy countless lives. There are no laws behind the prison fence. Here, life consists of humiliation, unending fear, and agony— where wounds from electrical shocks and broken bones destroy a man’s desire to live and distort one’s ability to distinguish between faith, forgiveness, and hatred. By recounting his struggle to remain human in the most inhuman conditions, we come to understand how the darkness of his captivity forever altered the author’s outlook on life.
