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Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes by Nayan Shah
2 reviews
neha_rainbows's review against another edition
informative
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Graphic: Torture
whatsrossreading's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Shah gives the reader and adequate background on the events surrounding and leading up to hunger strikes without getting bogged down in unnecessary details. You don’t need to be an expert on women’s suffrage, the IRA, or immigration to appreciate how and why the hunger strikes worked.
Graphic: Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Violence, Police brutality, Colonisation, Vomit, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement
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