Category Archives: World Issues

Rain and Embers – Ali Nuri

Posted on November 21, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “my father spared my eyes from Saddam’s sins  so I could experience real horror,  torture in the hands of my parent searing my skin at the age of seven I found his redemption— why can’t I … Continue reading →

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My Neighbour Osama Bin Laden – Yslar Tatuky

Posted on August 31, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned What happens when one puts Osama bin Laden and Salman Rushdie at the same dinner table? Yslar Tatuky is such a person as he has grand, though idealistic, hopes for humanity in his novel, My … Continue reading →

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Torn from the World: A Guerrilla’s Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico – John Gibler

Posted on July 15, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “This word: disappeared. They have so many ways of erasing you, “of trying to make you doubt the truth of your own life.” After five days, after every two hours, after only having felt a world … Continue reading →

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House of Beauty- Melba Escobar (Author), Elizabeth Bryer (Translator)

Posted on February 13, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I also hate the ladies of Bogotá among whom I count myself, though I do all I can to stand apart. I hate their habit of using the term “Indians” to refer to people they consider … Continue reading →

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A Rebel in Gaza: Behind the Lines of the Arab Spring, One Woman’s Story – Asmaa al-Ghoul (Author), Selim Nassib (Author), Mike Mitchell (Translator)

Posted on October 26, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I think the real occupying forces are the internal ones, Hamas, Fatah, the parties…then comes the major occupation: Israel. We can’t get rid of the latter without first of all getting rid of the former. To … Continue reading →

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Poso Wells- Gabriela Alemán (Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster)

Posted on September 3, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Something crouches in the streets of Poso Wells, and it attaches the nerves like a persistent drumbeat. Whatever it is haunts the dreams of the residents, panting I their faces, slobbering them with noxious saliva and … Continue reading →

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Absinthe: A Thriller – Guido Eekhaut

Posted on August 19, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “His methods are unconventional at best and border on illegal at times. And his opinion of women, well, I won’t go into that topic.” This is what AIVD Chief inspector Alexandra Dewaal has to deal with … Continue reading →

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Illegal: a true story of love, revolution and crossing borders – John Dennehy

Posted on October 15, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “For the first time in my life I know exactly where I want to be. I have found my home in the shadow of an Andean volcano in Ecuador. I’m about to move in with the … Continue reading →

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New People – Danzy Senna

Posted on August 1, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The poet is not a New Person…He doesn’t have mud-toned dreadlocks or octoroon gray eyes or butterscotch skin. …He has the body, the skin, the face that cabdrivers pretend not to see, that jewelers in midtown … Continue reading →

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Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Lost Innocence, Modern Day Slavery & Transformation – Barbara Amaya

Posted on June 19, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I was a survivor. A survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of my loved ones. A survivor of human trafficking under the belt of one of the most evil men I had ever met. A … Continue reading →

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