Béatrice Saubin Livres

Une jeune femme est faite prisonnière en Malaisie parce que l'on découvre à la douane de l'héroïne dans une valise verte qu'on lui avait offerte en cadeau.

in8. 1992. Cartonné jaquette. 346 pages.

Abandoned by her parents, brought up by her strict maternal grandmother in a small backwater town, young Beatrice Saubin always dreamed of visiting warm climates and exotic places. As a teenager she hitchhiked to India and later to Afghanistan and Thailand. In Malaysia, at age nineteen, she fell in love with Eddy Tan Kim Soo, a handsome, wealthy Chinese man. They planned to meet in Europe and marry. But at the airport on her way home, her spanking new Samsonite suitcase—a gift from Eddy— was ripped apart by custom officials. Beatrice was horrified to see that it contained several kilos of heroin. Clearly she had been set up by Eddy, who, it turned out, was a member of a powerful drug cartel. Arrested, Beatrice languished in prison for two years before she was tried. Her sentence: death by hanging. On appeal, her sentence was reduced to life in prison. Efforts on the part of her grandmother and an impassioned attorney managed to stir up public opinion, finally leading to Beatrice’s release after ten years. But however terrible, these years were not lost. While in prison, her spirits were never broken: she taught herself Malaysian and Cantonese, and became a model prisoner and a leader as well as a medical supervisor, caring for her fellow inmates. The Ordeal is her odyssey—always gripping, often terrifying, but ultimately a story of courage and inspiration.

Vzrušujúci opis tvrdej životnej skúšky v ázijskom pekle, zachytený vnímavou dušou ženy.

Forts. v. Dieser Hunger nach Leben. - Autobiographischer Bericht der jungen Französin über ihre schwierige Rückkehr ins normale Leben nach über 10jähriger, unschuldig abgesessener Haft in Malaysia.