Word: captors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable gesture of reconciliation. This Friday at a conference in a U.N. building in Paris, he will come face to face with Abbas Abdi, one of the dozen student leaders who planned and directed the hostage taking. As the dramatic meeting unfolds, the former hostage and his former captor will give talks on U.S.-Iranian relations, sit down for meals together and probably even shake hands...
...Bodrov and his crew transformed a town that spoke 36 dialects and languages into a working set, using townspeople as extras in many of the scenes. Bodrov found a star in one of them, the twelve-year old Valentine Fedotova, who plays Vania's protector, the daughter of his captor. Silent at first, her incredible eyes convey innocence while her daily life conveys drudgery. With her mother dead, she is the woman of the house, the cook, the cleaner, the farmer and the care-taker. She cannot help but care for the boy Vania, whom she enchants with dance, jingling...
While sitting across a cafe table with her son's captor, desperate father and desperate mother, Chechen and Russian, she appeals to Vania's captor, a man who, like her, knows the pain of losing a child to war. Yet even he is not moved. "We are enemies," he says. Negotiation and compromise are out of the question...
...super- and sub-. He can outshoot, outpunch and outthink any adversary; he survives all manner of impalement. Hell, he can even type. And he has the superhero's belief in his own invincibility. Unarmed and surrounded by villains pointing heavy artillery at him, Arnold tells his main captor, "If you drop your gun, I promise I won't kill...
NEAR THE END OF THE MOOR'S Last Sigh (Pantheon; 434 pages; $25), a madman holds the novel's narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, prisoner. The captor, an old but rejected friend of Zogoiby's late, flamboyant mother, demands a history of her family before killing its teller. "He had made a Scheherazade of me," Moraes writes. "As long as my tale held his interest he would let me live...