Posted by A review of “3096 Days”, the book in which Natascha Kampusch recounts her eight years of captivity at the hands of Wolfgang Priklopil: her childhood, the abduction, daily life with her captor and the complex relationship that allowed her to survive. Published in 2010, it was made into a film in 2013.
Natascha Kampusch is a grown woman now. But when she was 10 she was abducted by a 35-year-old man, Wolfgang Priklopil, and only escaped eight long years later. After her escape she wrote the book “3096 Days”, in which she describes her captivity.
I have just finished it and I highly recommend it.
It first describes Natascha’s childhood, her life and her character before the abduction. It introduces you to Natascha the child, insecure, who decides it is time to grow up and walk to school by herself.
Then it tells you about her abduction and the thoughts that went through her mind as her captor took her away to an unknown place.
Then you get to the heart of the book, and Natascha tells you about her daily life with her captor, made up of different phases with different behaviours: from an almost caring captor to a control freak and a violent maniac.
Despite all this, her captor was the only person she had contact with, and she developed a special relationship with him that would determine her survival.
A book that makes you think not only about the case, but also about how society perceives Good and Evil.
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