Ten years ago 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 book "Sold", Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could obtain their freedom as well. This book tells the 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 organization specializing in the recovery of abducted children.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Zana Muhsen
EAN: 9780316852302
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 288
WEIGHT: 290 g
HEIGHT: 233 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Little, Brown & Company
DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-20
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GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
WIDTH: 152 mm
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Book Themes:
c 1990 to c 1999, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Human rights, civil rights
Zana Muhsen's account of her escape from slavery in the Yemen (SOLD) was an international bestseller.