Read by Peter Ganim

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantv°namo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantv°namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir -- terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Published now for the first time, Guantv°namo Diary is a document of immense historical importance. Mohamedou Slahi was born in a small town in Mauritania in 1970. He won a scholarship to attend college in Germany and worked there for several years as an engineer. He returned to Mauritania in 2000. The following year, at the behest of the United States, he was detained by Mauritanian authorities and rendered to a prison in Jordan. Later he was rendered again, first to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, and finally, on August 5, 2002, to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where he was subjected to severe torture. He was cleared and released on October 16th of 2016 and repatriated to his native country of Mauritania. No charges were filed against him during or after this ordeal. Larry Siems is a writer and human rights activist and for many years directed the Freedom to Write program at PEN American Center. He is the author, most recently, of The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program. He lives in New York. "A longtime captive has written the most profound and disturbing account yet of what it's like to be collateral damage in the war against terror."-Mark Danner, NYTBR, & Editors' Choice "Slahi is a fluent, engaging and at times eloquent writer, even in his fourth language, E's book offers a first-person account of the experience of torture. For that reason alone, the book is necessary reading for those seeking to understand the dangers that Guantánamo's continued existence poses to Americans in the world."-Deborah Pearlstein, Washington Post "A riveting new book has emerged from one of the most contentious places in the world, and the U.S. government doesn't want you to read don't have to be convinced of Slahi's innocence to be appalled by the incidents he describes."-Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle "Guantánamo Diary will leave you shell-shocked."-Vanity Fair "Slahi emerges from the pages of his a curious and generous personality, observant, witty and devout, but by no means Diary forces us to consider why the United States has set aside the cherished idea that a timely trial is the best way to determine who deserves to be in prison.-Scott Shane, New York Times "An historical watershed and a literary diary is as close as most of us will ever get to understanding the living hell this man--who has never been charged with a crime, and whom a judge ordered released in 2010--continues to suffer."-Elias Isquith, Salon "Everyone should read Guantánamo D by virtue of having been written inside Guantánamo, Slahi's book would be a triumph of humanity over chaos. But Guantánamo Diary turns out to be especially human. Slahi doesn't just humanize himself; he also humanizes his guards and interrogators. That's not to say that he excuses them. Just the opposite: he presents them as complex individuals who know kindness from cruelty and right from wrong."-Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker "The tragedy of Slahi's memoir is not just his grave abuse at the hands of U.S. officials. It is 's account of life--if it can

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