|comment= I can't believe, that Batuk is a fiction novel.
I felt so close to her, living the traumatismes and finding a way out of the suffering through inventing of stories and writing. the moment, she was raped as a virgin is exactly how I felt during a near-death experience and I could get out of it through writing and creating of fiction stories.....
I am sort of relieved, that Batuk didn't die in the end of the book, because she didn't exist really, but the book is "only" a powerful voice for all the others who go through, what she writes about. I was so deeply moved by the book, that I had to find out, if she was still alive and then I came across the James Levine - informations.
Congratulations, Mr Levine, you have written this book with an enormous amount of understanding and sensitivity. Thanks.