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The Book of Revelation

by Rupert Thomsonliterary work· published 2000

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The Book of Revelation is a novel by UK author Rupert Thomson. The book was published in 2000 by Alfred A. Knopf and has 260 pages. The novel was unusual for its detailed descriptions of a non-statutory female-on-male rape. The protagonist of the novel is a male ballet dancer living in Amsterdam with his French girlfriend Brigitte. One day he is drugged and abducted in an alley by three hooded women. They hold him prisoner in an abandoned warehouse for about two weeks. During the course of his incarceration he endeavours to keep his mind separate from the abuse that is systematically inflicted on his body (involving two of the women raping him). In 2006 the book was made into a film by Ana Kokkinos. In the novel the narrator is never named explicitly.

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The Book of Revelation was adapted into a 2006 film.

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    The Book of Revelation
    2006 · film · 118 min · dir. Ana Kokkinos · IMDb ↗
    IMDb5.364%

    An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.

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