A Promise to Nadia
| Author | : Zana Muhsen |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown UK |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010-12-14 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0751543691 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780751543698 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.
