A PROMISE TO NADIA - A TRUE STORY OF A BRITISH SLAVE IN THE YEMEN

• Date de parution : 07/10/2010
• Editeur : Sphere
• EAN : 9780751543698
• Série : (-)
• Support : Poche

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• Genre : Littérature française
• Thème : Autobiographies contemporaines
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

@2@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... Voir plus

@2@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.@3@@2@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.@3@