Résistante

She grew up during the civil war in Lebanon, carried a weapon at age twenty and shot the General of the Southern Lebanese Army. She then survived ten years of hell in solitary confinement in the Khiam prison. This is the breathtaking autobiography of Suha Bechara, a woman who never gives up. > Now that the cycle of violence and oppression appears to be coming to an end, Suha Bechara tells how her childhood, in a country mutilated by 15 years of civil war - a conflict manipulated by foreign powers - led her to resistance. She speaks of the internal flame that allowed her to endure the barbaric conditions of her imprisonment and tells of life at the limits of human endurance - and beyond. One of the most important eyewitnesses to the reality in the Middle East today, Suha Bechara was born in 1967, and grew up in an orthodox-Christian family, known for its political, social and feminist involvement. Today she is a law and Hebrew student in Paris, still actively engaged in the life of her country and trying to make up for lost time. Gilles Paris, journalist at Le Monde, assisted her in the writing of this book.

Pages: 200, Paperback, Jean-Claude Lattès