而另一突出特點是對獄中酷刑的生動描述。
美國著名基督徒作家和記者、《耶穌在中國》的作者大衛 艾克曼分析了索爾仁尼琴和廖亦武的相似之處：said David Aikman, a history professor at Patrick Henry who worked as a reporter in China in the 1980s, “He’s really the first Chinese dissident writer who has come up with a very detailed account of prison conditions including torture in China in the same way that [Soviet dissident Aleksandr] Solzhenitsyn did in “The Gulag Archipelago.”
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