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and sings folk-tunes. Much of the book concerns the women's communications with each other and with the male prisoners housed below them, by passing notes on string or through bars, tapping on heating pipes and the floor in
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prison in Prague, in the form of a fictionalized memoir. Arrested in 1981, the author was herself held there for eleven months in for sedition after signing
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those of us who have lived our lives in freedom can only be compared to the care sometimes given to loved ones who are sick".
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