Slave
The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival
$26.97
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2000
Summary
Mende Nazer’s happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende was one of them. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave, an ‘abid’, without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps and h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081165 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081168 |
| Author: | Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 07000th |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Virago Press |
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Critics Review
a powerful memoir…shocking and very moving…her book is an eloquent testament to the ability of a brave soul to survive, and to the need to bring an end to slavery.
a powerful memoir shocking and very moving her book is an eloquent testament to the ability of a brave soul to survive, and to the need to bring an end to slavery. - Susan McKay, Sunday Tribune
All the cliches of such survival stories - life-affirming, heartwarming - are inadequate to describe the emotional impact of [Mende s] eventual deliverance. - Observer An eloquent testament to the ability of a brave soul to survive, and to the need to bring an end to slavery - Sunday Tribune A disturbing first-person insight into the 21st century slave trade - Express This remarkable woman…brilliantly blows the lid off the scandal of the thousands of forgotten people who are still being abducted and enslaved in Sudan. - Daily MailAbout The Author
Damien Lewis
After her escape from slavery, Mende Nazer has been granted asylum in the UK, and works to publicise the plight of modern-day slaves around the world.
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