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On an otherwise normal morning at a private school for girls, a 15-year-old student is picked up by soldiers and sent to a military camp, becoming one of the thousands of political prisoners arrested under Ferdinand Marcos' repressive regime in the 1970s. A year earlier, Marcos had declared martial law and a military government effectively took over the Philippines. After her release, author Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein was required to report to camp, her probation lasting five years. She was never charged and was never told why she was arrested. The effects of prison and the long-term probation makes Vicky’s story an authentic representation of the pernicious effects of dictatorship and tyranny, effects that pervaded a life for decades to come. This is a historically vital memoir, not only moving in its rendition of what life was like for a young innocent girl, but also for its incisive analysis of the political forces that wrecked democratic ideals in a country where politics and violence have always worked together for the benefit of the few.
- Sales Rank: #2258700 in Books
- Published on: 2013-06-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .49" w x 5.50" l, .56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 214 pages
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what stays in the reader’s mind is her love of family
By Noni
Although the book is titled “A Thousand Little Deaths” what emanates from each page is a multitude of shimmering strands of hope. The author imbues her story of her unjust incarceration as an adolescent with resilience and honesty. As much as she describes the fear, anguish, and shame she felt when incarcerated as a political prisoner as a teenager, (with no charges ever being brought against her), what stays in the reader’s mind is her love of family, of learning and literature, of her grandmother’s cooking and the enjoyment of local feast days. Most of all, one senses her deep and abiding love of her homeland, her empathy with its poorest people, and her outrage at what harm is being perpetrated on the country by those who are meant to protect it.
The author is skilled in drawing the reader in to taste the local delicacies, to feel the texture of the dress her mother makes for St Joseph’s Day, smell the radiant flowers and lush green vegetation of her native land. She is also adept in making the reader shiver at the darker side of her homeland --- the corpses dumped by the road, the stone-faced soldiers who regularly monitor her weekly “sign-in” at the prison camp, the brazen duplicitousness of the government of the day.
In addition to these evocative descriptions, she is fearless in exposing her own psyche. She frets over being so traumatized when she was not physically tortured, until finally allowing herself to understand that the psychological terror and social condemnation she endured cut as deep as any rope or blade, which permits the road to healing to begin in earnest.
One is brought to mind of Julia Alvarez’s “In the Time of the Butterflies”, although happily this young idealist lived to tell the tale. And what a tale it is. Highly recommended.
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A book about the means used by a repressive regime to install fear and about Philippino society in the 1970s
By Wolfgang Mostert
A 15-year old highschool girl is in the 1973 arrested by soldiers at her catholic school in the Philippines and transported to a prison camp. We are in the time of the repressive Marco regime and arrests were common to quell a combination of a Muslim insurgency in the South, a Maoist-inspired insurgency in the North and student protests.
In this book, the author recalls her ordeals as a political prisoner during a few months, the weekly reporting at the camp she had to perform during a five-year period, her paranoia of feeling watched and followed in the streets and how 30 years later, another event - being hit by cancer – enable her to overcome the previous trauma.
During most of the book we are inside the mind of the 15-year old. In the beginning, as a reader, one is irritated because one is not informed why the young girl was arrested. The point is: she does not know! She is guessing and comes to the conclusion that her participation in a couple of rather banal events must have let to somebody reporting her. She is concerned about her situation but even more about her family is affected and what her father and mother think about her. Therefore her disappointment is huge when she is released from the camp and returns home that nobody in the family talks about how they feel about the situation.
Although never stated in the book, the “thousand little deaths” refer to the subtle and not-so-subtle mechanisms used in political repression to install fear. Yet, the book is about more than that: we are also transferred back in time. While in the prison camp the 15-year old has a lot of time to think about her life in the Philippines and to observe what is going on around her. From her reflections we learn a lot about social life and etiquette in middle-class Philippines - I was surprised by how conservative a society the country was in the 1970s – and how people reacted to the non-stop political propaganda of the Marcos regime.
The book is a pleasure to read: meticulously, very intelligently written, one senses how the author has carefully reflected about every single sentence.
I was enthralled by being inside the mind of the 15-year old watching Philippino society and almost smelling the food being prepared for Christmas from the description. For that reason I was annoyed by the break in the middle of the book, where the author, who has a Ph.D. in political science, interrupted with a chapter analyzing the political situation in the Philippines. I would have preferred to read that section as a post-scrip at the end of the book. It took me several pages of reading afterwards before I was once more back into the mind of the 15-year old, and not an outsider looking at her.
In short, I highly recommend the book: there are many layers in it!
Wolfgang Mostert
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A Searing Memoir of Personal and Political Betrayal
By jonesgrp
Like all good books, "A Thousand Little Deaths: Growing Up Under Martial Law In The Phillipines" transports you to a different time and place and forces you to ask yourself: what would I have done? How would I have felt? How could I have coped? How would MY life have been changed?
When the author is arbitrarily arrested at age fifteen and taken to a military prison camp, the experience sends her psyche into trauma, not just from the harrowing imprisonment but, post-release, from a hurtful identity crisis as family, friends and community seek to assuage their own fear and loathing of what is happening to their country by defining the author's very personhood by this one appalling episode. How Vicky Pinpin escapes her prisons and triumphs over these "thousand little deaths", especially against the well-drawn and detailed backdrop of the Marcos regime is what makes this story so compelling. I applaud the author for sharing her heartbreakingly authentic memoir, as we hear virtually nothing now about the atrocities of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos' conjugal dictatorship, the consummate betrayal of Phillipine democracy, and the lasting effects of real traumas suffered by real people living under a repressive regime.
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