| A Promise to Nadia: A True Story of a British Slave in the Yemen Contributor(s): Muhsen, Zana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0751543691 ISBN-13: 9780751543698 Publisher: Little Brown and Co. (UK) OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Social Science | Islamic Studies - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010549101 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.05" W x 7.76" (0.46 lbs) 245 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - Arab World - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in her internationally bestselling book SOLD, Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could to obtain their freedom as well. A PROMISE TO NADIA tells the extraordinary story of those ten years; of the family's lone campaign against the Yemeni authorities; of the refusal of their own government in London to help; and of the despair that forced them into a desperate deal with an unofficial military-style organisation specialising in the recovery of abducted children. |