![]() ![]() Any deviation from this crushing routine - the sound of distant gunfire, a new voice in the hallway, or having his photograph taken by his captors - inflames André's imagination with thoughts of rescue, or sends him spiraling into despair. His days pass with metronomic regularity: fitful sleep broken up by the "click, clack" of the door, which augurs a meal of thin vegetable soup, or a bathroom break. We watch them storm into the room where André is sleeping, forcibly abduct the bewildered and terrified man, and shove him into the backseat of a car.įor days that stretch into weeks, and weeks into months, André's existence shrinks to one of numbing monotony, as he is kept - mostly - in a small darkened room, handcuffed to a radiator beside a bare mattress. That same, muted grayscale color-scheme will stay with us throughout the book, because the man imparting those words - Christophe André, a Doctors Without Borders administrator assigned to the Caucasus region in 1997 - will spend the bulk of Hostage's 432 pages in darkness.īut first, we see a car pull up to the building, and several dark shapes clamber out. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Hostage Author Guy Delisle and Helge Dascher ![]()
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