Dark Days chosen as a Quill and Quire “book of the year”
Quill and Quire, “Canada’s magazine of book news and reviews,” says Dark Days is “an essential book for our morally ambiguous times,” and has chosen it as one of fifteen books (and one of four non-fiction books) to remember from 2008.
Here’s the full article from the December issue of Quill and Quire:
Anyone who believes that Canada is exempt from the human rights abuses of the so-called “global war on terror” needs to think again. In an essential book for our morally ambiguous times, human rights advocate Kerry Pither looks at the stories of four Canadian citizens — Maher Arar, Ahmad El Maati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin — who were imprisoned in Egypt and Syria, held without charge or counsel, and tortured, all with the implicit sanction of our government. Those abuses made headlines this fall with the release of the Iacobucci report; Pither’s book is a resounding clarion call for Canadians concerned with due process and the presumption of innocence.
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