A Hostage
Mendel, Charlotte R
A novel that probes Western political naiveté and, often hilariously, the relationship of the individual to society.When Charlotte is kidnapped panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. When the Middle Eastern dictator Kassem questions the writer about why she had killed him off in her last book A Hero, he triggers a surreal month of captivity. While Kassem appears determined to explain every...
