An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan

...such men that Brian Keenan, an Irish teacher, found himself when on his way to work at the English University of Beirut. What was to follow for Brian, would have made a lesser man insane, I am sure that if it were me who had been taken I would have been dead by now. Brian Keenan was raised in an Ireland full of troubles, sectarian values were abound and he was himself troubled by the futility of the young people dying for a cause they understood ...
...complete horror with honesty and an understanding of how his captors viewed him in relation to themselves. He was, quite simply, an infidel and unclean, he was never allowed to look upon any of them and wore a blindfold whenever they were present. He was determined that he would show no fear to them, despite the fact that he was, understandably, scared witless for much of the time. His captors would try and engage him in conversation, asking about ...

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Being 15 and in an english class at school, I was given the task of selecting a book, poem, short story etc. to do a kinda review of- specialist study is what it was called. So, I trecked off to the small, nearly adequate school library to try and find that one special book amongst the seemingly millions that there were. I got 5 books out in total, one of them "An Evil Cradling" I came across "An Evil Cradling" and because of the intimidating cover ...
...at a time, treated like an animal. Once, he was beaten so badly that he couldn't walk, for simply stopping a man from hitting him by putting up his arms to prtect himself. Another time, he was "mummified" in masking tape with only a small hole for him to breathe and squashed suffocatingly into a small boot. He's denied magazines, games - any sort of entertainment for the majority of his stay. In only 4 years so many things happen to him that he eventually ...

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...UK. The style has an almost poetic meter about it that gives it real flow. Rather than being a depressing read is is really about the joys of life and one man's (brotherly) love for another man - in this case John McCarthy, his fellow captive. It's never dull and is filled not just with description but about thoughts and feelings about life as much as it is about the situation he in which he finds himself. It was a runner up in the Booker Prize ...

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