VIKTIMO - Chronicle of Silent Lives is a book of witness that traces lives whose voices have been taken away.
There are no names on these pages, because names are unnecessary here. In their place, there are numbers, queues, gates, crates, and silence.
Each chapter speaks from within a "silent life." Some begin by the side of the rails, some awaken in a white-lit room, some are moved on a wedding morning, some are held behind soundproof walls. The only thing they share is that they have been removed from visibility.
VIKTIMO does not search for a culprit.
It does not shout.
It does not accuse.
It simply leaves what happened as it is.
And precisely for that reason, it disturbs.
This is not fiction; yet it is not the name of truth either.
This book reveals the quietly functioning face of systems, the background of the order called "normal," and the everyday nature of violence that has become habitual.
As the pages turn, one thing becomes clear:
Silence is not innocent.
And some lives remain "orderly" only as long as they are not told.
