In the embrace of life
| Author: | Nina Osenar Kontrec |
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| Publisher: | Catapult |
| Year of release: | 2023 |
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Dimensions: | 21 x 14.5 cm |
| Number of pages: | 410 |
| ISBN: | 9789617198089 |
A book about how most of the wrong decisions are made for the right reasons. The biography of Simon Dom, who mixed soup with the devil in the Venezuelan hell. The story of a suitcase that didn't go the right way. Absolutely not. Their destination was Brnik, but it stopped at the aptly named Simon Bolivar airport in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. In reality, the story began much earlier. Even before he decided to be a mule.
A story of suffering. Penance. Punishment. Transformation and victory. About what the human mind can do. What the body can endure. That sometimes it really is better to be crazy.
Gringo loco, as Simon was nicknamed in the most dangerous and one of the most brutal open prisons in Venezuela– Los Teques. The kingdom of criminals, where their rules applied. Where the police and the army had no entry, where you had to pay to sleep on a dirty piece of foam on the floor and eat leftovers from the trash, and where salsa echoed 23 hours a day.
No Spanish. No money. When you're betrayed by an old friend. What do you do to survive? You become one of them. With a hole in your head and a pit in your soul. You become a beast in a world where you're never allowed to be prey. But Simon survived. So he can share his story with you.Is the story really over?
THEY SAID ABOUT THE BOOK:
- "If this story didn't exist, we would have to make it up. If we made it up, no one would believe it. It's a good thing it happened. Guy Ritchie is no slouch." - MIHA ŠALEHAR, radio host and publicist
- "A brilliantly written book that will make you never think of paying off your debts by smuggling drugs. It reads tensely, shockingly, and simply powerfully, as if you were on cocaine." - Aljoša Harlamov, editor and publicist