Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya-卡扎菲的后宫-

作者：Cojean Annick

书名：Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya《卡扎菲的后宫：一个年轻女人的故事和利比亚的权力滥用》

中文简介：Gaddafi's Harem《卡扎菲的后宫》书中的女主角是一位化名为莎拉雅的女孩。据她回忆，2004年，只有15岁的她被安排在一次访问中向卡扎菲献花。此后不久，她就被绑架至卡扎菲的寝宫，遭其强暴、殴打、蹂躏长达5年之久。莎拉雅透露，卡扎菲新虏获的女学生会被安排观看色情影片，或者观摩卡扎菲强奸其他性奴，以“学习”如何服侍这位独裁者。

英文简介：In 2011, Annick Cojean, senior reporter at Le Monde and special correspondent for Tripoli, wrote a shock article, titled 'Gaddafi's sexual slave', which told the story of Soraya, a twenty-two-year old Libyan woman who had been kidnapped and held captive since the age of 15. Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, the Guide, on a visit he was making the following week. This one meeting - a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi - changed Soraya's life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi's palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi.

In 2012, Cojean returned to Libya to continue her investigation. Her book, Gaddafi's Harem, takes Soraya as its starting point to recount the fates of so many other women. She has gone to remarkable lengths - rape is the highest taboo in Libya - to collect these women's stories. Heartwrenchingly tragic but ultimately redemptive, Soraya's story is the first of many that are just now beginning to be heard.

In Gaddafi's Harem, Le Monde special correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to Soraya's story, and supplements her investigation into Gaddafi's abuses of power through interviews with other women who were abused by Gaddafi, and those who were involved with his regime, including a driver who ferried women to the compound, and Gaddafi's former Chief of Security.

Gaddafi's Harem is an astonishing portrait of the essence of dictatorship: how power gone unchecked can wreak havoc on the most intensely personal level, as well as a document of great significance to the new Libya.