Death and the Maiden

“It is about a Chilean woman, Paulina, who meets someone through her husband whose voice she recognises as her torturer…I would also say that the reason I selected it is because the play addresses the dilemma of what you do to the torturer and what the torture victim is entitled to when the nightmare of the torture-based regime is over and a state is trying to reorganise itself along democratic and more humane lines. I think the play shows very starkly that kind of dilemma that societies experience.” Read more...

The best books on Torture

Juan Mendez, Lawyer