Guantánamo Diary

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantanamo detainee.

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantanamo 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, Guantanamo Diary is a document of immense historical importance.

ALL CENSORED MATERIAL RESTORED: Slahi has been released and has restored all the material the U.S. government redacted from the original edition of GUANTÁNAMO DIARY.


AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING EVENT: A NYT bestseller and NYTBR Editors' Choice, the hardcover has received rave reviews from NYT, Washington Post, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, and Salon, among others.


NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT: No comparable document has emerged from any prison or detention camp—this is a first, and absolutely one-of-a-kind. Other books by detainees have been written (usually by a ghost writer) well after the author's release, and they were minor prisoners kept away from Guantánamo's darkest corners.