I Choose to Live

Összefoglaló

What you see here on the book cover is eminently what you get: Sabine Dardenne is photographed holding a photograph of herself at 12 - the age when she was dragged from her bike as she was cycling to school, bundled into a van, imprisoned in a hidden concrete cell, drugged, starved and continually, relentlessly raped, for nearly three months. The two faces make you think: about innocence, childhood, vulnerability. The little girl in the photo-within-a-photo is smiling broadly, her white teeth all childishly uneven: she is a very young 12. The little face is cheeky, sparky; the eyes bright and open, head slightly cocked to one side.