REQUIEM FOR A WOMAN'S SOUL

REQUIEM FOR A WOMAN'S SOUL / by Omar Rivabella| produced by Rosemarie Reed. - SERIES: Endangered literature| no. 1 Series of radio plays dramatizing works of literature with human rights themes published by small presses in the Third World and Eastern Europe. CONTENT: Omar Rivabella, an Argentine journalist and human rights advocate, tells the story of a young woman, Susanna, whose life of dreams turns to nightmares. She is unjustifiable abducted in the middle of the night, and taken to a series of prisons that function as torture chambers for those considered political subversives. The story is intercut with the life and thoughts of Father Antonio, who becomes transformed as he decipers notes on bits of paper smuggled out from her prisons. - Winner of the 1993 CPB Gold award. BROADCAST: Satellite, 27 July 1993.