Diary of the Castle of Exile

Section: Prison Literature

Number of pages: 414 pages

When you read the letters of the player, the letters he wrote from his prison, you know that, from the beginning, he realized the deep meaning of a place and time called prison: it is the transformation of the person who enters it. Changing him towards his erasure. Between the walls of the cell, and inside an isolated world that prepares for the death of life in it, the thought of the new visitor was working, grasping the secret of the hidden game of death, the game of death that the prison conceals, seeing where death hides.

He realizes that life is possible, a life of growth, giving and change. I read all this and said: Is it possible that prison life can be this rich? Abdel Latif Al-Laabi’s prison diaries are an example of the virtue of being loved. And before that, of being able to spread the values ​​of love, and share it even with those outside prison. They are love letters that Al-Laabi shares with his life partner Jocelyn, his children and his comrades.