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The title of this book The Pain within my Soul speaks for itself, since the author uses real-life stories from personal experience and each story may personally touch the reader’s soul. Not by chance, the subtitle of the book is Short Stories about Crime and Life, where it is sometimes hard to divide one from the other. This book introduces a collection of stories about crime and life written in different styles of writing. The author of the book, during her experience as both a journalist and a police officer, would interact with people who committed crime. That’s why these stories are based on true events and real people though for ethical norms, the names of the characters and places were changed. The author defines causation of crime through her own perspective. Despite the public’s negative perception towards criminals, the author tries to convey the idea that some criminals had no other choice but to commit a crime in order to survive in their tough periods of life. The author shows that a border between understanding criminals and non-criminals might be indecipherable and only one step is enough to move from a non-criminal to a criminal and vice versa. These real stories are examples of particular types of crime and issues in criminal justice system, for example, turf wars among criminal justice agencies (story: Nobody’s); disadvantaged families as a major factor which leads adolescents to run away from home (story: Fruit Garden); social demographic characteristics such as: poverty, lack of education as factors which lead to prostitution (stories: On the Corner of Earth; Flower of the Blind Alley; Weeping Blizzard). Other stories provide by itself examples of different types of crimes: group rape (stories: He gave me Up; Valley of Crying Tulips), murder (story: Twisted Vine of Destiny), coerced confession (story: Two Steps into the Past; I Confess). This collection of stories will be of great interest to students of law and criminal justice as well as the general readers.
- Sales Rank: #995129 in Books
- Published on: 2015-02-09
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .24" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 106 pages
About the Author
IRINA ZAKIROVA is adjunct assistant professor at Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. She earned a PhD in Legal studies - with a focus on compensation for damages, two Master's Degrees in Journalism and Criminal Justice as well as First Professional Degree in Law. She has an experience as a journalist, police officer, jurist and lecturer.
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The Stanzas on the "Missing" Posters: The Poetic Within Irina Zakirova's "The Pain Within My Soul"
By raya
Cinderella being sexually assaulted by her Prince Charming and running away to her own freezing death at midnight in the park. The manicured female lead of a police procedural drama putting her frizzed hair in a military bun and retrieving the tiniest joys in a close person’s life. Losing the answers of an unsolved murder mystery through the questions posed by the departed victim. Irina Zakirova, with her bouquet of experience as a police officer, journalist, and academician, makes this Gonzo scenarios sound poetically justified in her book of short stories The Pain Within My Soul.
If Charles Perault’s Cinderella were living nowadays, she would re-incarnated into little Zoe and little Maria- two orphans depicted in the haiku-like stories “Tall Cherry Blossom” and “Fruit Garden.” As Ms. Zakirova creates the imagery of spring by depicting Zoe’s sensual observation of the cherry blossom and that “in spring it bloomed in millions of tiny, white flowers and spread a soft aroma,” the readers can still sense the pungent smell of garbage after the girl has hidden in the trash and “she smelled badly and the caretakers would wash her twice and change her clothes.” No good fairy would materialize from the grey walls of the orphanage and even if she did, the ball little Zoe would be led to would end up a gang rape with “boys from the senior class (that) smelled like alcohol and for some reason said that they are about to have their own party here.” Thus, Zoe seals her unhappily ever-after end by running away and possibly dying just like another modern-day Cinderella that Ms. Zakirova gets us to meet- Maria. Once the clock strikes twelve at midnight of New Year’s Eve, the body of the runaway by the less than chariotic bus Maria “was sitting as a big frozen doll” in a park. The shrivels sent down the readers’ spine complement the sun kisses felt through the spring/summer at the orphan’s fruit garden where “branches of trees blossomed and hardworking bees were buzzing over them.” Alas, the honest work of these bees was thwarted by the drunken step-mother Vivian who took the fresh fruits and “threw them on the ground,” thereby stomping on the last seeds of hope and love Maria has saved for her father. Ms. Zakirova sends a painfully beautiful reminders that it takes much more than a shoe to live happily ever after.
Since she has had first-hand experience as a police officer, the author knows from inside out the minutes bits of the police psyche- from the “go save the city” attitude to the quest for favorable public image and the gratification of solving a big case. Yet, officers-focused stories “Under the Lead of Night” and “Two Steps into the Past” are the anti-thesis of the flashy police procedurials where dolled-up detectives solve a complicated case and nail the bad guys via deus-ex-machine revelations and superhuman powers. In “Under the Lead of Night” Ms. Zakirova’s awakens every parent’s worst nightmare and every screenwriter’s favorite script by presenting us with the Maniac- a faceless madman who rapes, tortures, and kills young females. As usual, the police, driven by motives both for social justice and publicities, seems to have caught the ubiquitous Jack the Reaper. To add more juice to the alleged resolution, Ms. Zakirova adds that he doesn’t surrender quietly and “four strong police officers could barely hold him.” Then, she turns the tables on us by revealing that the person-of-interest was the typical Joe the Plumber ranting for missed payment. Yes, the majority of the people are not maniacs but Toms, Dicks, and Harrys committing menial acts just for sports. Nevertheless, officers such as the rookie Rina from “Two Steps into the Past,” believe, as they “wrap her long brown hair into a military bun …and (puts) her military cap” that once they take the beat “this city (will be) safer than it is.” It becomes safer not because she is Super-Girl strong and nabs a maniac but because she gives the safety net of love to her former landlady by pressuring the TV repairman to return the only motley thing in the grey life of the lady- the color TV. Even though the repairman is not the real culprit for the grandmother figure’s nephew “came late in the evening and took the TV without waking up his dearest granny,” it is solving the crime of indifference toward the people in need that counts. Through both the images of the plumber and the nephew, Ms. Zakirova adds the sestet of resolution of the Italian sonnet, preceded by the suspense over serial killers and upcoming glamorous cases in the opening lines, which could be the octave.
In order to make the very title of the collection self-speaking, Ms. Zakirova makes the wrenching-in-pain souls of the murdered alive by giving them voice. In the stories “I Confess” and Nobody’s” there is resonance of Alice Sebold’s bestseller The Lovely Bones. Just like in The Lovely Bones Suzy Salmon- a fourteen-year-old girl who was lured by her neighbor and then raped, murdered and dismembered, tells the story of her brief life on Earth while playing on a green moor in Heaven, the corpse of the stabbing victim in “I Confess” comes alive for a moment and pleads with his killer to spare him numerous autopsical procedures and let him go home by confessing and the river-surfing body of the narrator in “Nobody’s” depicts his own murder and follow-up superficial investigation. Having definitely crossed into the domain of surrealism, the author vocalizes what the departed would have wanted from the penetrator, “I just finally want my body to be placed in a chapel, a prayer was read and I was buried in a cemetery near my mother.” It is this simple wish from the outer world, rather than the exasperating questions of the detective, who realizes that “48 hours will expire soon” that makes the murderer let out the Miranda Rights- sheltered words “I confess…I killed him.” The idea of Resting In Peace is further extended into the final paragraphs of “Nobody’s” when the sponged up corpse, tired of being bounced from shore to shore by investigators lusting for their chief’s approval rather than for justice, shares with the readers, “However, the current took me with such power and began pushing me to float further and further away. And I was nobody’s and I’m still nobody’s…” These words pronounced by a dead man hold the grim reality that many of the murder cases remain unsolved and that there are and will be plenty of nobody’s who can do nothing but have a flashback on their sad life and the crime that took it away.
With her vivid imagery descriptions of nature, bone-chilling suspense building, and departure from the technical realism, Irina Zakirova exposes the police officers’ sub-conscious wishes, fears, and sentiments that cause pain within their souls. Whether it is the wishful thinking of uprooting all the ugliness of the crimes they face or a simple way of coping with the omni-dangers of the police profession, it translates into stanzas and couplets forming under the pictures on the posters of both the toothless smiles of the truant girls who will never hear a bumble bee or the blank frowns of found corpses who will never hear the a church bell.
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Captivating and beautifully written
By Amazon Customer
The collection of stories in this book have the ability to take you into the shoes of the characters, based on real stories. In the short story titled "I Confess", the author gives the insight of the accused killer as well as those of the detectives. All of the people are able to be connected with because the author put the dialogue together so well; few books tell true crime stories through each members viewpoint, and this book succeeds expectations, leaving the reader feeling emotions for both the victims and suspects alike.
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Under the Lead of light is a perfect example of this
By Leonidas
The Pain Within My Soul is a haunting remainder of how crime can encroach on a human beings lifestyle. Under the Lead of light is a perfect example of this, especially, when the maniac in the story preyed on innocent women's predetermined fate of life or death.
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